No biggie! I saved your blog as my Bloglines, so I've been updated on your progress!
Yes, I implanted my worse ear first. Majority of the surgeons and audiologists prefer to do that mainly because they want the patient to be able to "save" the better ear JUST in a so slight chance that the patient won't like it. I *WISHED* I did my better ear first, but you know what, I probably would have gone bilateral anyways.
Yes, it felt a little WEIRD to have my left hear better. When I had hearing aids on, I would wear both all the time. I can't really wear one without the other. I can hear music vocals a little bit better if I have my left aid on, instead of just my right. So, there's certain sounds that my left had that my right didn't and the other way around. I used my right hearing aid for phone, I could never hear too well out of my left. After getting implanted in my left, I realized that I was missing quite a lot of the high frequencies. It pretty much felt like I was hearing Left and Right through the left ear...with the high frequencies that I didn't have in the first place. When I wore my hearing aids, I could only hear 80 db at high frequencies areas. So, that's pretty bad. With my CI now, it's straight across the board at 10-15 db line. So yeah. 
Oddly enough - with both CI, I'm hearing MORE out of my right than my left.
Now that I have both - it took a while to get used to it for my left. I think it took about 2 or 3 weeks to really understand what I was hearing, and picking up a lot more sounds. My right, it took the next day. I haven't even have my first "real" map yet! It's always crude at first to allow adjustments...then about 3 to 4 weeks later, it's mapped with programmings and higher DR, and whatnot. I have tried just wearing one CI. Left first. Whoa...everything is soft. Right next - every thing is soft. Both - Perfect (for now...Right still needs a much better map than I have now!).
So, yes, I'm SO glad I had two done.
Hugs!
