By Sara on October 2, 2009
First things first. Music with my cochlear implant is way way beyond my expectations. But I had pretty low expectations. Seriously, music sounds great now (5 months from activation). The CI adds a whole new layer of sounds that I couldn’t hear before. It helps bring out the lyrics. It adds the higher frequency percussion, cymbals, [...]
Posted in Activities, Hearing, Music
| Tagged bimodal, cochlear implant, PE Exam, saxophone
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By Sara on September 19, 2009
It’s nice that there are three brands of cochlear implants. The competition keeps everyone moving forward. Cochlear just had a new implant and processor approved, the Cochlear 5. Here’s an example comparison posted to one of the mailing lists I’m on that shows how one brand is catching up with another. With the advent of the [...]
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By Sara on September 11, 2009
Let’s see how I do with my last post’s list. I’m going to take CI/hearing topics today. 1. 4 months with CI That’s right. I was activated way back on May 4th. I’ve been in for just 3 mappings since then at 2 weeks, 1 month and 3 months (though all were a bit late). My audiogram has [...]
Posted in Hearing, Music, Work
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By Sara on September 2, 2009
I want to write! But there are so many things that I want to write about that I draw a blank when I open this window to start. Maybe a list will help… 4 months with CI CI #2? 2 CIs versus 1 CI and 1 HA versus bilateral EAS Music lately (wish I’d remembered to bring headphones [...]
Posted in About Me, Activities, Hearing, Music, Work
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By Sara on August 4, 2009
Sorry for the cut-n-paste job, but I’m traveling again for work this week without much time to write. I find this topic fascinating though. I’ve been wearing my hearing aid in the unimplemented ear (formerly my better ear) for almost 2 months now. For the next set of hearing tests I’ll ask to be tested [...]
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| Tagged bimodal, cochlear implant, hearing aid
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By Sara on July 31, 2009
Frying pan noises – right now Don is grilling burgers in a pan because the grill ran out of gas Which cycle the washer or dryer are on – from the living room Beep when the washer finishes MANY crickets and other chipers outside at night – just opening the door a crack is like turning them all on, they are LOUD Toilet paper crinkling Bed [...]
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| Tagged sounds
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By Sara on July 17, 2009
I used to joke that I did great in band, my hearing loss didn’t prevent me from playing, I could hear everyone… except the piccoolos. And people would laugh and say that I wasn’t missing anything, or even that I was lucky to not hear them. When did I first realize I was hearing them with [...]
Posted in Hearing, Music
| Tagged piccolos, stars and stripes forever
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By Sara on July 17, 2009
Where does the time go? July 4th weekend my parents stopped to visit us here in Charlottesville. I had a band concert that Thursday night and another on the morning of the Fourth of July at Monticello. It’s always moving to see the naturalization ceremony conducted. Last year the guest speaker was the president (which one? [...]
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By Sara on July 1, 2009
I just read a post over at earplugs about dealing with phone calls that have the voice menu systems. A nuissance for deaf and hearing alike. In the past years I’ve gotten very comfortable making these kinds of calls though. I am much more comfortable with calls to someone who gets paid to answer the phone [...]
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| Tagged captel, phone calls, relay, telephone, TRS
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By Sara on June 29, 2009
I’ve been curious about the Sound and WAY Beyond auditory training from Cochlear (one of the 3 cochlear implant brands). Problem is, it’s $99 (maybe more since I’m not a Cochlear customer) and it doesn’t run on a Mac (believe it or not I’m not set up to run Windows on my Mac. I have [...]
Posted in Hearing
| Tagged cochlear, rehabilitation, sound and way beyond
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