Guest guest Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 I was born deaf, had aids by 4 yrs. old. Speech discrimination is nil as lip reading is my language. I am excited right now because I just upgraded to a new Oticon " Chili " hearing aid. Now I can hear (sounds only) much more than I have in the past year or so. I will never be able to hear " without my eyes " - I wear contacts so I can hear! I've been told I qualify for CI but why lose the hearing for a chance to hear better. I have never heard speech (understand)...I don't want to spend months and years trying to learn what words sound like when I do very well with my eyes. Just my opinion. In a message dated 7/14/2011 5:29:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rhondafaye1@... writes: > I had a 90-100 db loss in both ears. My speech discrimination was 8% in my right ear and 30% in my left. I received a cochlear implant in February of this year in my right ear. At the 3 month evaluation my implanted ear now has a speech discrimination of 94%. My only regret is that I didn't get the implant years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 17, 2011 Report Share Posted July 17, 2011 , I understand what you are saying. I have been facing that same issue, but I realize now sounds are not just what I want to hear. I want to hear much more. I am hopeful that CIs will enable me to talk to a person without reading their lips and watch tv without captions. I know I am taking a big risk... but I am at the point wear it is worth a try... Thanks for your input! ________________________________ From: " cathyk231@... " <cathyk231@...> Sent: Thu, July 14, 2011 5:25:09 PM Subject: Re: Re: HA vs CI  I was born deaf, had aids by 4 yrs. old. Speech discrimination is nil as lip reading is my language. I am excited right now because I just upgraded to a new Oticon " Chili " hearing aid. Now I can hear (sounds only) much more than I have in the past year or so. I will never be able to hear " without my eyes " - I wear contacts so I can hear! I've been told I qualify for CI but why lose the hearing for a chance to hear better. I have never heard speech (understand)...I don't want to spend months and years trying to learn what words sound like when I do very well with my eyes. Just my opinion. In a message dated 7/14/2011 5:29:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rhondafaye1@... writes: > I had a 90-100 db loss in both ears. My speech discrimination was 8% in my right ear and 30% in my left. I received a cochlear implant in February of this year in my right ear. At the 3 month evaluation my implanted ear now has a speech discrimination of 94%. My only regret is that I didn't get the implant years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 8, 2011 Report Share Posted August 8, 2011 Old habits (60yrs) die hard. 3 months later, I am still lipreading; especially in noisy environments; I enjoy captioning on TV and at the movies as do many of my hearing friends. I doubt that I will ever get to a point of 100% independence and why should I if everything works well together. I can however hear talk show consversations on the radio and continue to practice listening that way. Several weeks after receiving the processor, I achieved 85% voice discrimination and that test is always given without being able to lipread. Hope this helps.  Harry From: rhonda hitt <rhondafaye1@...> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 2:58 AM Subject: Re: Re: HA vs CI  , I understand what you are saying. I have been facing that same issue, but I realize now sounds are not just what I want to hear. I want to hear much more. I am hopeful that CIs will enable me to talk to a person without reading their lips and watch tv without captions. I know I am taking a big risk... but I am at the point wear it is worth a try... Thanks for your input! ________________________________ From: " cathyk231@... " <cathyk231@...> Sent: Thu, July 14, 2011 5:25:09 PM Subject: Re: Re: HA vs CI  I was born deaf, had aids by 4 yrs. old. Speech discrimination is nil as lip reading is my language. I am excited right now because I just upgraded to a new Oticon " Chili " hearing aid. Now I can hear (sounds only) much more than I have in the past year or so. I will never be able to hear " without my eyes " - I wear contacts so I can hear! I've been told I qualify for CI but why lose the hearing for a chance to hear better. I have never heard speech (understand)...I don't want to spend months and years trying to learn what words sound like when I do very well with my eyes. Just my opinion. In a message dated 7/14/2011 5:29:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rhondafaye1@... writes: > I had a 90-100 db loss in both ears. My speech discrimination was 8% in my right ear and 30% in my left. I received a cochlear implant in February of this year in my right ear. At the 3 month evaluation my implanted ear now has a speech discrimination of 94%. My only regret is that I didn't get the implant years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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