Hi guys.
As some of you may know for other posts I've made. My activation day way 3 days ago. Now that it's been a few days I figured I'd share with you all.
Of course nothing sounds right yet. I went in for my second mapping the day after activation. For those of you who don't have a CI I'll share what steps have been taken so far.
On the first activation day it was set to 5% volume. They put 4 programs on it and each program was a little louder then the one before. So my job the first day was to keep it on the lowest program for a while (1). Then a few hours later jump to the next one and so forth (As long as it doesn't become uncomfortable).
The second day mapping was basically the same process except it was turned up to 10%. So between now and my next mapping on Jan. 7 I'm suppose to jump up to a higher program ever couple of days.
But a really cool thing happened on the second day. My audi gave me some of the beep tests then she covered her mouth and I was to tell her if I hear her speak. I could hear her speak just fine (Can't understand what she says yet but I can hear the voice). Now here's the cool part. She covered her mouth again and instructed me to tell her if I can tell if the words she says are one or two syllables. I got them all right then I surprised her when I said, "2.. Did you just say airplane?" So it was cool that I was actually able to not only know when she spoke but I also picked up a couple of words. This wasn't expected to be possible on my second day so it was very cool.
So next she asked if I can repeat numbers from one to 9 as her mouth was covered. I got 7, 2 and 9 right.
Then she said she wanted to check something and took me into the sound proof room where the real tests are done. We didn't run a long test. I just had to raise my hands when I heard some beeps and a few speech words (I didn't have to repeat what she said but just tell her when I heard it). She did this breif test just to explain why what it meant that I was able to pick up a few words already and compare it to my last hearing test which I got zero in speech.
Here's a graph of my last hearing test about 5 months ago and the one I just did yesterday the day after activation. The old results are in black (Unaided) and the new one is in red (With CI).
This is with STD = 0. Volume 10%
As you can see it's well in the range of speech and this was not expected till later. So we're very happy with the results so far.
Now for the Nucleus 5. I know there are some posts here asking questions about it. IF any of you have any question or anything you want me to check out let me know.
I can't compare it to any of the other CI's out there because this is my first. But I will say that the small size is great and it's easy to forget there's anything behind my ear.
It's to early for me to make comments on sound quality or anything like that because it's only been a few days and nothing sounds right yet. But I'm very happy with it. I'll come back after about a week or so and share any more thoughts and discoveries. But right now I'm discovering new sounds all the time. It's awesome!
Ron
As some of you may know for other posts I've made. My activation day way 3 days ago. Now that it's been a few days I figured I'd share with you all.
Of course nothing sounds right yet. I went in for my second mapping the day after activation. For those of you who don't have a CI I'll share what steps have been taken so far.
On the first activation day it was set to 5% volume. They put 4 programs on it and each program was a little louder then the one before. So my job the first day was to keep it on the lowest program for a while (1). Then a few hours later jump to the next one and so forth (As long as it doesn't become uncomfortable).
The second day mapping was basically the same process except it was turned up to 10%. So between now and my next mapping on Jan. 7 I'm suppose to jump up to a higher program ever couple of days.
But a really cool thing happened on the second day. My audi gave me some of the beep tests then she covered her mouth and I was to tell her if I hear her speak. I could hear her speak just fine (Can't understand what she says yet but I can hear the voice). Now here's the cool part. She covered her mouth again and instructed me to tell her if I can tell if the words she says are one or two syllables. I got them all right then I surprised her when I said, "2.. Did you just say airplane?" So it was cool that I was actually able to not only know when she spoke but I also picked up a couple of words. This wasn't expected to be possible on my second day so it was very cool.
So next she asked if I can repeat numbers from one to 9 as her mouth was covered. I got 7, 2 and 9 right.
Then she said she wanted to check something and took me into the sound proof room where the real tests are done. We didn't run a long test. I just had to raise my hands when I heard some beeps and a few speech words (I didn't have to repeat what she said but just tell her when I heard it). She did this breif test just to explain why what it meant that I was able to pick up a few words already and compare it to my last hearing test which I got zero in speech.
Here's a graph of my last hearing test about 5 months ago and the one I just did yesterday the day after activation. The old results are in black (Unaided) and the new one is in red (With CI).
This is with STD = 0. Volume 10%
As you can see it's well in the range of speech and this was not expected till later. So we're very happy with the results so far.
Now for the Nucleus 5. I know there are some posts here asking questions about it. IF any of you have any question or anything you want me to check out let me know.
I can't compare it to any of the other CI's out there because this is my first. But I will say that the small size is great and it's easy to forget there's anything behind my ear.
It's to early for me to make comments on sound quality or anything like that because it's only been a few days and nothing sounds right yet. But I'm very happy with it. I'll come back after about a week or so and share any more thoughts and discoveries. But right now I'm discovering new sounds all the time. It's awesome!
Ron
