R2D2

Hi Contradica,

I'm back from my map and a little bit of shopping too I must admit, since the weather has warmed up a fair bit and I needed some more work clothes.

I'm happy. We have increased the comfort and decreased the threshold levels a little bit both ways. The audie was happy too, she said that we've made good progress in one week.

By the way, over the weekend in my older CI ear, I started to feel flashes of pain everytime there was a high frequency sound. So I turned the volume down temporarily, knowing that I was going to see the audie in a day or two. Anyway when I told her my problem, we closed down one electrode and the problem is now solved. She said it doesn't really matter if you have to close electrodes because the others interplay to compensate for that lost pitch. I cannot notice any difference in the sound. We even bumped up the volume again above my original volume for good measure as my new ear seems to want to dominate.

My next appointment is in 3 weeks as audie is going on holidays. That suits me just fine.

How have you gone in the past few days? I looked at your list and you are hearing a great range of sounds for just one week! Have you managed to coordinate a helicopter to land over you again?? It's great that you are hearing stuff now that you haven't heard for so long. No wonder your brain is going "what the heck is going on??"

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Left ear implanted 9th June 2006 Activated 29th June 2006
Right ear implanted 31st August 2007 Activated 18th September Both Nucleus Freedom

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