Ah Yes!

September 15, 2011

Hi Everyone!

I had a mapping on Tuesday and had my audie take Auto-sensitivity off all my

programs. Ahhh yes! I am loving my everday program! I love hearing water

running, road noise and all the other unnecesary noises that got squashed down

and muffled by Auto Sensitivity.

I have a new audie since the one who first hooked me up 8 years ago

transferred out of state. She really wanted to give me a sound booth test and

I really didn't want to do it. I told her that numbers didn't mean much to me

and that real life experiences meant more to me. I am very proud of how far

I've come on my journey out of silence and I didn't need a number to prove just

how far I've come. She was not swayed. I finally agreed to do it; but I told

her that no test in a sound proof room was going to equal real life and that I

didn't want to know I was hearing 85% plus in the sound booth when I know I was

not getting that high in a crowd of people. She understands that clarity will

always be a problem and that the sound booth was not going to equal real life

but she still wanted to to do it. I knew my one on one was really good so I

finally agreed to the test! She invited the Hearing Aid audie to sit with her

in her booth. First, they did single words and I was truly amazed. I had not

done this test since 2002 and they were still the same words I repeated in the

60's, 70's and 80's. I wasn't sweating like I always did when I took this test

either. It was not sressful at all. This time it was sooooo much easier and I

could tell what words I could never get right all those years ago. I really

stunk at this test but always got cowboy, ice cream and football. They were

blown away by my result...92%. Then they did the beep test and I raised my hand

for all the beeps. Both of them came in my booth truly amazed. I only got 2

wrong on the single words and got all the beeps. Then they asked me to take off

my processor and they wanted to do the beeps again. I said all I will do then is

just sit here. They wanted to try it anyway so I went along with it and all I

did was sit there looking at the speaker like I was told to. I finally looked

through the 2 way window and my audie was shrugging and gesturing to see if I

was hearing any beeps. I shook my head no and they both came in my booth totally

blown away with how well I do with one CI. They asked me how bad my hearing

was before my CI and I told them that at my CI Candidacy testing I just sat in

the booth not responding to anything. The Hearing Aid audie started crying and

saying what a miracle it was for me and how she wished her patients were better

accepting and enthusiastic about getting one. I told her that my HA audie

wanted me to look into the CI in 1986 but a man was in the waiting room wearing

one and he was very frustrated trying to figure out what he was hearing and I

pointed to him and said, " That is not for me! I know what I have now and don't

know what I will have if I get that. " I lived with my hearing aid muffleness

for another 16 years or so before I lost the last wee bit of residual muffled

hearing I had and then I was ready to talk CI. I told that audie that when

her patients are ready they will seek out the inforomation. Anyway, that's

my thrill for the week...Autosensitivity is off my programs....YEAH!!

Good luck to all of you on your journey out of silence. Best wishes to all of

you facing surgery. May your surgery be successful and your recovery smooth.

My very best wishes to all of you still struggling with the CI. May you

someday soon have that " Ahh, this is nice Map! "

Patti

Surgery Day 11/25/02 (What A Day!)

Hook Up Day BWP 1/2/03 (A Happy Day!)

3G 1/31/03 (An Even Happier Day!)

N5 Upgrade 7/19/11 WOW!

September 15, 2011

For what it's worth, I don't think it's a bad thing that you waited a

while. After having impaired hearing that finally degraded to

uselessness, I got an early cochlear implant in 1988. My impression at

that time was that I couldn't hear as well with it as I could with a

hearing aid a couple years earlier. I only used it until 1994, had it

removed in 2000.

In 2009, I got a new implant in the other ear, and that totally blew me

away -- I can hear things I've never heard before in my life. It's way,

way better than the cochlear implant I got in 1988.

And in 2010, I had that first ear re-implanted .. but the scarring and

bone growth from the first implant made that surgery very difficult, so

that one doesn't work as well as the other one, but together they work

better than alone. And that also began the first time in my life that I

could hear in both ears at once, which has also been interesting. Even

now, I'm only slowly starting to get a sense of where sounds are coming

from, as I've never been able to do that before.

Ken

--

Do the hardest thing first, then the rest will be easy.

-- Unknown

On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, scrabbler214 wrote:

>

> Hi Everyone!

> I had a mapping on Tuesday and had my audie take Auto-sensitivity off all my

programs. Ahhh yes!

> I am loving my everday program! I love hearing water running, road noise and

all the other

> unnecesary noises that got squashed down and muffled by Auto Sensitivity.

> I have a new audie since the one who first hooked me up 8 years ago

transferred out of state.

> She really wanted to give me a sound booth test and I really didn't want to do

it. I told her

> that numbers didn't mean much to me and that real life experiences meant more

to me. I am very

> proud of how far I've come on my journey out of silence and I didn't need a

number to prove just

> how far I've come. She was not swayed. I finally agreed to do it; but I told

her that no test in

> a sound proof room was going to equal real life and that I didn't want to know

I was hearing 85%

> plus in the sound booth when I know I was not getting that high in a crowd of

people. She

> understands that clarity will always be a problem and that the sound booth was

not going to

> equal real life but she still wanted to to do it. I knew my one on one was

really good so I

> finally agreed to the test! She invited the Hearing Aid audie to sit with her

in her booth.

> First, they did single words and I was truly amazed. I had not done this test

since 2002 and

> they were still the same words I repeated in the 60's, 70's and 80's. I wasn't

sweating like I

> always did when I took this test either. It was not sressful at all. This time

it was sooooo

> much easier and I could tell what words I could never get right all those

years ago. I really

> stunk at this test but always got cowboy, ice cream and football. They were

blown away by my

> result...92%. Then they did the beep test and I raised my hand for all the

beeps. Both of them

> came in my booth truly amazed. I only got 2 wrong on the single words and got

all the beeps.

> Then they asked me to take off my processor and they wanted to do the beeps

again. I said all I

> will do then is just sit here. They wanted to try it anyway so I went along

with it and all I

> did was sit there looking at the speaker like I was told to. I finally looked

through the 2 way

> window and my audie was shrugging and gesturing to see if I was hearing any

beeps. I shook my

> head no and they both came in my booth totally blown away with how well I do

with one CI. They

> asked me how bad my hearing was before my CI and I told them that at my CI

Candidacy testing I

> just sat in the booth not responding to anything. The Hearing Aid audie

started crying and

> saying what a miracle it was for me and how she wished her patients were

better accepting and

> enthusiastic about getting one. I told her that my HA audie wanted me to look

into the CI in

> 1986 but a man was in the waiting room wearing one and he was very frustrated

trying to figure

> out what he was hearing and I pointed to him and said, " That is not for me! I

know what I have

> now and don't know what I will have if I get that. " I lived with my hearing

aid muffleness for

> another 16 years or so before I lost the last wee bit of residual muffled

hearing I had and then

> I was ready to talk CI. I told that audie that when her patients are ready

they will seek out

> the inforomation. Anyway, that's my thrill for the week...Autosensitivity is

off my

> programs....YEAH!!

> Good luck to all of you on your journey out of silence. Best wishes to all of

you facing

> surgery. May your surgery be successful and your recovery smooth. My very best

wishes to all of

> you still struggling with the CI. May you someday soon have that " Ahh, this is

nice Map! "

> Patti

> Surgery Day 11/25/02 (What A Day!)

> Hook Up Day BWP 1/2/03 (A Happy Day!)

> 3G 1/31/03 (An Even Happier Day!)

> N5 Upgrade 7/19/11 WOW!

>

September 15, 2011

Patti,

I agree about the sound booth but... There is a good reason for using

those tests. You're right of course, they cannot measure how we do in real

life. Test scores provide a reference the audi can record by using a

controlled environment which cannot be done in the real world. So humor her

and enjoy your real world journey..

Quote of the nanosecond...

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Home Page-

http://webpages.charter.net/dog_guide/

Ah Yes!

Hi Everyone!

I had a mapping on Tuesday and had my audie take Auto-sensitivity off all

my programs. Ahhh yes! I am loving my everday program! I love hearing

water running, road noise and all the other unnecesary noises that got

squashed down and muffled by Auto Sensitivity.

I have a new audie since the one who first hooked me up 8 years ago

transferred out of state. She really wanted to give me a sound booth test

and I really didn't want to do it. I told her that numbers didn't mean much

to me and that real life experiences meant more to me. I am very proud of

how far I've come on my journey out of silence and I didn't need a number to

prove just how far I've come. She was not swayed. I finally agreed to do

it; but I told her that no test in a sound proof room was going to equal

real life and that I didn't want to know I was hearing 85% plus in the sound

booth when I know I was not getting that high in a crowd of people. She

understands that clarity will always be a problem and that the sound booth

was not going to equal real life but she still wanted to to do it. I knew my

one on one was really good so I finally agreed to the test! She invited

the Hearing Aid audie to sit with her in her booth. First, they did single

words and I was truly amazed. I had not done this test since 2002 and they

were still the same words I repeated in the 60's, 70's and 80's. I wasn't

sweating like I always did when I took this test either. It was not

sressful at all. This time it was sooooo much easier and I could tell what

words I could never get right all those years ago. I really stunk at this

test but always got cowboy, ice cream and football. They were blown away

by my result...92%. Then they did the beep test and I raised my hand for

all the beeps. Both of them came in my booth truly amazed. I only got 2

wrong on the single words and got all the beeps. Then they asked me to take

off my processor and they wanted to do the beeps again. I said all I will do

then is just sit here. They wanted to try it anyway so I went along with

it and all I did was sit there looking at the speaker like I was told to. I

finally looked through the 2 way window and my audie was shrugging and

gesturing to see if I was hearing any beeps. I shook my head no and they

both came in my booth totally blown away with how well I do with one CI.

They asked me how bad my hearing was before my CI and I told them that at my

CI Candidacy testing I just sat in the booth not responding to anything.

The Hearing Aid audie started crying and saying what a miracle it was for me

and how she wished her patients were better accepting and enthusiastic about

getting one. I told her that my HA audie wanted me to look into the CI in

1986 but a man was in the waiting room wearing one and he was very

frustrated trying to figure out what he was hearing and I pointed to him and

said, " That is not for me! I know what I have now and don't know what I

will have if I get that. " I lived with my hearing aid muffleness for

another 16 years or so before I lost the last wee bit of residual muffled

hearing I had and then I was ready to talk CI. I told that audie that

when her patients are ready they will seek out the inforomation. Anyway,

that's my thrill for the week...Autosensitivity is off my

programs....YEAH!!

Good luck to all of you on your journey out of silence. Best wishes to

all of you facing surgery. May your surgery be successful and your recovery

smooth. My very best wishes to all of you still struggling with the CI.

May you someday soon have that " Ahh, this is nice Map! "

Patti

Surgery Day 11/25/02 (What A Day!)

Hook Up Day BWP 1/2/03 (A Happy Day!)

3G 1/31/03 (An Even Happier Day!)

N5 Upgrade 7/19/11 WOW!

September 16, 2011

Hi Ken,

Thanks for the kind words and sharing your experience. I often wonder what it

would be like to hear through two ears and I enjoy reading other people's

experiences.

Continued success to you!

Patti

>

> For what it's worth, I don't think it's a bad thing that you waited a

> while. After having impaired hearing that finally degraded to

> uselessness, I got an early cochlear implant in 1988. My impression at

> that time was that I couldn't hear as well with it as I could with a

> hearing aid a couple years earlier. I only used it until 1994, had it

> removed in 2000.

>

> In 2009, I got a new implant in the other ear, and that totally blew me

> away -- I can hear things I've never heard before in my life. It's way,

> way better than the cochlear implant I got in 1988.

>

> And in 2010, I had that first ear re-implanted .. but the scarring and

> bone growth from the first implant made that surgery very difficult, so

> that one doesn't work as well as the other one, but together they work

> better than alone. And that also began the first time in my life that I

> could hear in both ears at once, which has also been interesting. Even

> now, I'm only slowly starting to get a sense of where sounds are coming

> from, as I've never been able to do that before.

>

> Ken

>

> --

> Do the hardest thing first, then the rest will be easy.

September 16, 2011

Thanks, ! I humored her all right! Patti

>

> Patti,

> I agree about the sound booth but... There is a good reason for using

> those tests. You're right of course, they cannot measure how we do in real

> life. Test scores provide a reference the audi can record by using a

> controlled environment which cannot be done in the real world. So humor her

> and enjoy your real world journey..

>

> Quote of the nanosecond...

> Classified Ad:

> Used cars: why go elsewhere to be cheated. Come here first.

> & Dreamer Doll ke7nwn

> E-mail-

> Gone.to.Dawgs@...

> Home Page-

> http://webpages.charter.net/dog_guide/

>

> Ah Yes!

>

> Hi Everyone!

> I had a mapping on Tuesday and had my audie take Auto-sensitivity off all

> my programs. Ahhh yes! I am loving my everday program! I love hearing

> water running, road noise and all the other unnecesary noises that got

> squashed down and muffled by Auto Sensitivity.

> I have a new audie since the one who first hooked me up 8 years ago

> transferred out of state. She really wanted to give me a sound booth test

> and I really didn't want to do it. I told her that numbers didn't mean much

> to me and that real life experiences meant more to me. I am very proud of

> how far I've come on my journey out of silence and I didn't need a number to

> prove just how far I've come. She was not swayed. I finally agreed to do

> it; but I told her that no test in a sound proof room was going to equal

> real life and that I didn't want to know I was hearing 85% plus in the sound

> booth when I know I was not getting that high in a crowd of people. She

> understands that clarity will always be a problem and that the sound booth

> was not going to equal real life but she still wanted to to do it. I knew my

> one on one was really good so I finally agreed to the test! She invited

> the Hearing Aid audie to sit with her in her booth. First, they did single

> words and I was truly amazed. I had not done this test since 2002 and they

> were still the same words I repeated in the 60's, 70's and 80's. I wasn't

> sweating like I always did when I took this test either. It was not

> sressful at all. This time it was sooooo much easier and I could tell what

> words I could never get right all those years ago. I really stunk at this

> test but always got cowboy, ice cream and football. They were blown away

> by my result...92%. Then they did the beep test and I raised my hand for

> all the beeps. Both of them came in my booth truly amazed. I only got 2

> wrong on the single words and got all the beeps. Then they asked me to take

> off my processor and they wanted to do the beeps again. I said all I will do

> then is just sit here. They wanted to try it anyway so I went along with

> it and all I did was sit there looking at the speaker like I was told to. I

> finally looked through the 2 way window and my audie was shrugging and

> gesturing to see if I was hearing any beeps. I shook my head no and they

> both came in my booth totally blown away with how well I do with one CI.

> They asked me how bad my hearing was before my CI and I told them that at my

> CI Candidacy testing I just sat in the booth not responding to anything.

> The Hearing Aid audie started crying and saying what a miracle it was for me

> and how she wished her patients were better accepting and enthusiastic about

> getting one. I told her that my HA audie wanted me to look into the CI in

> 1986 but a man was in the waiting room wearing one and he was very

> frustrated trying to figure out what he was hearing and I pointed to him and

> said, " That is not for me! I know what I have now and don't know what I

> will have if I get that. " I lived with my hearing aid muffleness for

> another 16 years or so before I lost the last wee bit of residual muffled

> hearing I had and then I was ready to talk CI. I told that audie that

> when her patients are ready they will seek out the inforomation. Anyway,

> that's my thrill for the week...Autosensitivity is off my

> programs....YEAH!!

> Good luck to all of you on your journey out of silence. Best wishes to

> all of you facing surgery. May your surgery be successful and your recovery

> smooth. My very best wishes to all of you still struggling with the CI.

> May you someday soon have that " Ahh, this is nice Map! "

> Patti

> Surgery Day 11/25/02 (What A Day!)

> Hook Up Day BWP 1/2/03 (A Happy Day!)

> 3G 1/31/03 (An Even Happier Day!)

> N5 Upgrade 7/19/11 WOW!

>

September 29, 2011

Glad you are doing so well, Patti. I still have the 3G processors.

Thanks for posting.

Sharon Fox

Bilateral CI surgery 12-09-2002

Bilateral CI hookup 1-09-2003

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Posted by: " scrabbler214 " scrabbler214@... scrabbler214

Date: Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:04 pm ((PDT))

Hi Everyone!

I had a mapping on Tuesday and had my audie take Auto-sensitivity off all my

programs. Ahhh yes! I am loving my everday program! I love hearing water

running, road noise and all the other unnecesary noises that got squashed down

and muffled by Auto Sensitivity.

I have a new audie since the one who first hooked me up 8 years ago

transferred out of state. She really wanted to give me a sound booth test and I

really didn't want to do it. I told her that numbers didn't mean much to me and

that real life experiences meant more to me. I am very proud of how far I've

come on my journey out of silence and I didn't need a number to prove just how

far I've come. She was not swayed. I finally agreed to do it; but I told her

that no test in a sound proof room was going to equal real life and that I

didn't want to know I was hearing 85% plus in the sound booth when I know I was

not getting that high in a crowd of people. She understands that clarity will

always be a problem and that the sound booth was not going to equal real life

but she still wanted to to do it. I knew my one on one was really good so I

finally agreed to the test! She invited the Hearing Aid audie to sit with her

in her booth. First, they

did single words and I was truly amazed. I had not done this test since 2002

and they were still the same words I repeated in the 60's, 70's and 80's. I

wasn't sweating like I always did when I took this test either. It was not

sressful at all. This time it was sooooo much easier and I could tell what words

I could never get right all those years ago. I really stunk at this test but

always got cowboy, ice cream and football. They were blown away by my

result...92%. Then they did the beep test and I raised my hand for all the

beeps. Both of them came in my booth truly amazed. I only got 2 wrong on the

single words and got all the beeps. Then they asked me to take off my processor

and they wanted to do the beeps again. I said all I will do then is just sit

here. They wanted to try it anyway so I went along with it and all I did was

sit there looking at the speaker like I was told to. I finally looked through

the 2 way window and my audie was

shrugging and gesturing to see if I was hearing any beeps. I shook my head no

and they both came in my booth totally blown away with how well I do with one

CI. They asked me how bad my hearing was before my CI and I told them that at

my CI Candidacy testing I just sat in the booth not responding to anything. The

Hearing Aid audie started crying and saying what a miracle it was for me and how

she wished her patients were better accepting and enthusiastic about getting

one. I told her that my HA audie wanted me to look into the CI in 1986 but a

man was in the waiting room wearing one and he was very frustrated trying to

figure out what he was hearing and I pointed to him and said, " That is not for

me! I know what I have now and don't know what I will have if I get that. " I

lived with my hearing aid muffleness for another 16 years or so before I lost

the last wee bit of residual muffled hearing I had and then I was ready to talk

CI. I told

that audie that when her patients are ready they will seek out the

inforomation. Anyway, that's my thrill for the week...Autosensitivity is off

my programs....YEAH!!

Good luck to all of you on your journey out of silence. Best wishes to all of

you facing surgery. May your surgery be successful and your recovery smooth.

My very best wishes to all of you still struggling with the CI. May you

someday soon have that " Ahh, this is nice Map! "

Patti

Surgery Day 11/25/02 (What A Day!)

Hook Up Day BWP 1/2/03 (A Happy Day!)

3G 1/31/03 (An Even Happier Day!)

N5 Upgrade 7/19/11 WOW!

October 1, 2011

Soooo good to " hear " from you, Sharon!!!! I am still very much in awe with

one on one conversations, thanks to the CI! If my volume wheel hadn't gotten

stuck and if the 3G hadn't been deemed obsolete, I probably wouldn't have

upgraded since I loved the 3G but I am doing very well with the N5. The noise

program helps me a lot in noisy areas. Mostly, though, I use the everyday

program and just fool with the volume and sensitivity. I haven't found the

focus or music program helpful yet.

Have a great day and I hope " hear " from you again soon.

Patti

>

> Glad you are doing so well, Patti. I still have the 3G processors.

> Thanks for posting.

>

> Sharon Fox

> Bilateral CI surgery 12-09-2002

> Bilateral CI hookup 1-09-2003

>

> ____________orginal message_______________

>

> . Ah Yes!

> Posted by: " scrabbler214 " scrabbler214@... scrabbler214

> Date: Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:04 pm ((PDT))

>

> Hi Everyone!

> I had a mapping on Tuesday and had my audie take Auto-sensitivity off all

my programs. Ahhh yes! I am loving my everday program! I love hearing water