Cochlear Implantation Surgery 7/28/15

AlleyCat said:
Great photos! Glad you are happy with your results. I hope it continues to get even better! I forget, how old were you when you started losing your hearing? Your 20's?
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Yes in my 20s. Exactly 20 for my left ear and 25/26 in my right. For the last of 3-4 years I had very limited access to speech, the six months to a year, no access to any sound even with my aids in. I chose my right ear to implant because it's had more access to speech for longer.

I knew this could be hard, I didn't want to make harder by implanting my bad ear know what I mean?

And thank you!!!!
 
That was a good idea about which ear you implanted. I was sure I remembered you were later-deafened. Me being deaf since birth, I did look into this about 8 years ago but even the Audi didn't feel I'd benefit from it, speech-wise. I totally appreciated her honesty. But I'm happy for those who are happy with their results.
 
ambrosia said:
Yes in my 20s. Exactly 20 for my left ear and 25/26 in my right. For the last of 3-4 years I had very limited access to speech, the six months to a year, no access to any sound even with my aids in. I chose my right ear to implant because it's had more access to speech for longer.

I knew this could be hard, I didn't want to make harder by implanting my bad ear know what I mean?

And thank you!!!!
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Having a similar loss, I can tell you it probably won't make any difference which ear in the long term. In other words if you go bilateral at some point you should expect equal results. I had almost 4 years between mine and both are very similar now.


Seems Deaf are naturally more expressive and animated than hearing regardless of if one signs or not. Based on watching a brief portion of your video. Also noted this with other oral deaf folks I know
 
AlleyCat said:
That was a good idea about which ear you implanted. I was sure I remembered you were later-deafened. Me being deaf since birth, I did look into this about 8 years ago but even the Audi didn't feel I'd benefit from it, speech-wise. I totally appreciated her honesty. But I'm happy for those who are happy with their results.
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I do wish it could work for everybody but I'm glad she was honest with you. I'd rather know exactly what I was dealing with so I could process and handle it realistically. Giving you false hope would have been cruel and harder to deal with emotionally in the long run, I think anyway.
 
ambrosia said:
I do wish it could work for everybody but I'm glad she was honest with you. I'd rather know exactly what I was dealing with so I could process and handle it realistically. Giving you false hope would have been cruel and harder to deal with emotionally in the long run, I think anyway.
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I totally agree. I had my parents and my then-boyfriend, now-husband, go with me. So we could have an opinion all-around. We all agreed that it seemed pointless if it wasn't going to benefit me, and it was good to have everyone else agree. I think my parents were hoping it would benefit, but even they had to agree with what the Audi said. I'm fine with it. I have always been deaf, so I always say I can't miss what I never had. It's different for the later-deafened.
 
Amber-osia ... one day when your feeling froggy take the kids (as a back up) and go through a drive thru somewhere to see how it does. I shut the engine off in my truck to hear but can still manage it. And if its quiet with no back ground noise I bet you could use the phone already ;)
 
ncff07 said:
Amber-osia ... one day when your feeling froggy take the kids (as a back up) and go through a drive thru somewhere to see how it does. I shut the engine off in my truck to hear but can still manage it. And if its quiet with no back ground noise I bet you could use the phone already ;)
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That'll probably be a ways off, the people on the TV sound strange.
 
ambrosia said:
That'll probably be a ways off, the people on the TV sound strange.
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What's her name ... Jenna? Call Jenna in MB and y'all can talk about ass hats, twat waffles and the big black dick your dad give you :D :laugh2:
 
Sitting here listening to music ... one you're sure to remember ... Against All Odds by Phil Collins ... piano with singing and the music isn't totally off the wall loud to drown it out. Headphones are better that regular speakers I've always preferred those over CI audio cables too. I think its totally awesome its working this well and your hearing this good so soon.
 
I haven't posted any progress reports lately :) so it's been a little over 4 weeks post activation and things are going just freaking awesome.

On Monday made phone calls for the first time with my CI. I used my Hamilton relay service because I didn't think it'd go that well. Turns out I impressed the **** out of myself. I didn't use the captions for either phone call. One phone call I missed something she said so I checked the captions but they hadn't caught up to the conversation yet so I just asked due a repeat and we cleared it up that way. It went soooooo well!!!! I really didn't think I'd be at that point for awhile yet.

Also, the other day I saw a video posted on fb. U2s "With or Without You". I watched/listened just for ****s and giggles. His voice sounded like I remembered!!!! I was so excited I went and got myself an iPod Nano and put some of my old CDs on it. I need to put many more tunes on it. I also got myself some over the ear headphones :) newer music still sounds pretty dreadful, but now I have high hopes that will change.

So excited because I really didn't expect to get music, I set the bar real low for that, actually talking on the phone too, set that bar pretty low.

I have another mapping, the second since activation, on the 28th. I'm to charge my compilot before hand so we can hook that up :) maybe music and phone will get even better!

My son took a pic of me "rocking out" with my new headphones.
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newer music still sounds pretty dreadful, but now I have high hopes that will change.
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Alas- having spoken to some hearing friends of mine.. it will still sound dreadful LOL. There's a precious few that may be good music though.
 
DeafDucky said:
Alas- having spoken to some hearing friends of mine.. it will still sound dreadful LOL. There's a precious few that may be good music though.
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I was telling a coworker that when my daughter plays music in my car it just sounds like noise. She says "it is just noise" haha

I think I'll like Bruno Mars and Adele. I stopped being able to hear new music not long before they started.
 
another picture, cuz I love visuals. I love my aquapack!!! love being able to able to go in the water and hear, which btw was a bit terrifying at first. I was so afraid of screwing it up. Its nice having it off the ear too. My son took this pic too, I was walking around saying "I've got my ear on my boob!!"
 
ambrosia said:
another picture, cuz I love visuals. I love my aquapack!!! love being able to able to go in the water and hear, which btw was a bit terrifying at first. I was so afraid of screwing it up. Its nice having it off the ear too. My son took this pic too, I was walking around saying "I've got my ear on my boob!!"
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Lol...I have up to a year to pick one of the 6 items from the package for free and that's one of them. I am tempted to get it as I am a fish but then again, I grew up not being able to hear while swimming so why need that for myself. I guess I am thinking of using that while sunbathing on the beach. Decisions...decisions....
 
ambrosia said:
I was telling a coworker that when my daughter plays music in my car it just sounds like noise. She says "it is just noise" haha

I think I'll like Bruno Mars and Adele. I stopped being able to hear new music not long before they started.
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Bruno Mars - Grenade is a good one to try. Or "Just the way you are"
 
ambrosia said:
I was telling a coworker that when my daughter plays music in my car it just sounds like noise. She says "it is just noise" haha

I think I'll like Bruno Mars and Adele. I stopped being able to hear new music not long before they started.
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Bruno Mars is definitely one you'll want to listen to. I need to get some of his songs but have been putting off getting more tunes. Adele I have is worth the listen too.
 
No wonder I really didn't enjoy music like I did with my hearing aids today at the festival. Maybe that was why.
 
Scott, Nirvana isn't "new".

Yeah shel it's way too early for music to sound anything but bloody awful to you. I'm surprised at how well I can hear my old favorites, I really didn't expect it. Just all of a sudden it sounded better. Last Saturday actually. There's music playing constantly at my spa and last Saturday it finally sounded like it was supposed. Music is rather an exaggerated term for what they play. It's mostly flutes and something that sounds like chimes. There's no melody, just random notes held by different flutes with chimes interspersed between them. It's pretty ugh, but sounds better than what I was hearing. For the first 3 weeks it that "music" sounded more like my tinnitus going ape****, loudly!! I think the aqua pack will be good for working out. I've been lazy all summer. Maybe I'll try my p90x3 vids and I'll be able to hear Tony telling us what to do :)
 
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