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Category Archives: English
An implantable hearing aid
Michael Chorost describes a fully implantable hearing aid which is in the stage of clinical trials in the US. The company which created the device, Otologics, is planning to make a cochlear implant with this technique too. Sure this is … Continue reading
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Brain rewiring after the CI
Nieukowiec sent this link: Brain’s ‘Hearing Center’ May Reorganize After Implant Of Cochlear Device I’ve always said that it’s all about brain reprogramming. I wonder what would my brain scans show since I’ve never had normal hearing. I am sure … Continue reading
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The world is a noisy place
There is nobody home. What is this strange sound? Ah. It is me scratching my own back. I sometimes feel like I hear everything in my environment. Pity that I can’t interpret most of it yet.
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11 weeks
I have turned on my current programme a week before it was planned. Here goes the story. Two months after the switch on I realized that I don’t have vertigo. It was gone. The visit to the implantation centre was due … Continue reading
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Life is going on
Due to some problems in the family I am not much in the mood for blogging lately. For the same reasons, I am a bit behind with the training exercises. What is new? I have a new programme. As far … Continue reading
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Two months after the switch-on
I am able to follow the text listening and reading it simultaneously, even when my hearing aid is off. I have one book in audio and in print, and it is a good exercise. The book is read by the … Continue reading
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Speech and batteries
A friend of mine told me yesterday that my speech is clearer now. I pronounce some consonants more distinctly. She was the third person to tell me this (without being asked). Interesting. I haven’t tried to speak more clearly than usual. … Continue reading
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7 weeks after the switch-on
I observe some interesting effects of the speech/hearing therapy. First, I can discriminate vowels. I still confuse some of them, but there is definitely some progress. However, I’ve noticed a strange problem with something I could do before the CI, … Continue reading
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Birds.
I have escaped from the big city for a few days. Here I can concentrate on sounds — no cars, no people everywhere. I hear birds. They are so loud! I had imagined this sound quite differently. I wouldn’t know … Continue reading
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My new toy
I have found a toy on a Macbook: virtual piano! It is something just for me. I am sitting without my hearig aid on (because of the earlobe irritation) and playing like a child who sneaked to the room where … Continue reading
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And so on.
Yesterday I have changed the programme to P3, which is louder. At my workplace the window is open and I hear sometimes a sound similar to the ambulance sirens. But my window isn’t facing the street. Is it possible that … Continue reading
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One month after the switch-on — reprogramming.
The visit to the centre after one month — tests and reprogramming of the processor. We are asked about our impressions from this first month and we fill in numerous questionnaires. Then there is a meeting with a speech therapist, … Continue reading
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Four weeks after the switch-on
It is 4 weeks with the processor on. I begin to hear some environmental sounds. Not the loudest ones. Rustling is pretty loud. But I still don’t hear the majority of speech sounds. I am aware of speech, though. Some … Continue reading
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Easter housework
I hear the vacuum cleaner (this post probably means that I don’t clean my room very often). This sound is much softer when heard through the CI than through the hearing aid. Rustling sounds, on the contrary, I hear much … Continue reading
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Steps
Yesterday I wrote that I heard the clicking of my heels. Today I hear the sound my soft shoes make when I walk on the linoleum. It is a strange sound-sensation.
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Stuff
Velcro ripping. Some music. Howling of the brakes in the old bus. Opening and closing its door. My own heels’ patter. In this case I am not sure if I hear or feel this. Maybe it is how it’s supposed … Continue reading
Bolero
Bolero, the favourite music of Lucyna and Michael Chorost… When I listen to the version I have with my hearing aid on, I don’t hear much at all in the first five minutes. Then it probably moves to the lower … Continue reading
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Words
When I write that I begin to hear something, I mean that I perceive this as a sound, not “feel” them as something like vertigo. I feel a lot of sounds this way. It is not that I hear these sounds … Continue reading
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How do I know the batteries are dead?
Vertigo. It is good that I’ve just received new supply. It has been the second set of batteries only. I will be testing the Rayovac Acoustic Special now (the hearing aids kind, not the special CI ones). And I switch … Continue reading
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A week’s worth of sounds
Day 6 The sounds are emerging slowly. Today I heard the clanking of a big hairpin. Like planned, I have switched to the 3rd program today and I feel like returning to the 2nd. I have tinnitus (like a fan … Continue reading
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Switch on
Monday, March 19th I come to the centre in the morning, but it turns out that the speech processor programming — the first time my implant is going to be switched on — is at 2 pm. There is a group … Continue reading
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Pulsar (English)
K. had the switch-on day yesterday. I have asked him about his first experiences some 4 hours later and he texted me: The processor was switched on, but I don’t hear much besides the sounds typical for the interference noises. … Continue reading
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10 days to go
10 days to the switch-on date. Yawn. Nothing happens. The veins in my right hand gradually cease to hurt, without any medical intervention. I only switched the mouse to my left hand and it would stay this way for some … Continue reading
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Catch 22
It has been two weeks since the surgery and I am still having some problems with the veins in my hand after an IV drip. I am not sure if I should worry about it, or if it is just … Continue reading
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Stitches
I had my stitches removed on Thursday, 10 days after the surgery. It hurts a bit, but is also a relief. I have WASHED MY HAIR for the first time and I feel civilised. The switch on day is set … Continue reading
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Day 0 and later
Zoe asked me to write in English too. This was unavoidable I think :-). I am going to post in two languages, though the English versions may appear a bit later and may be shorter. Feel free to point out … Continue reading
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