Shopping is always a well deserved treat R2D2
I have to admit though trying on clothes requires some finesse without knocking the magnet off.
How much higher is your comfort levels now with the new CI? Did the tinkling or dinky sounds resolve yet? That good that just one electrode was turned off to stop the pain. How have you been getting along in stereo?
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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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I am doing pretty good I think. These baby steps suck
Since you worn hearing aids, will this sound start to sound more like my hearing aid and not so robotic in time? I still can't make heads or tails or any speech. I had my mom cover her mouth and talk to me and I guess totally off.
"What book do you want me to read?" she said
"You want me to have a vasectomy?" I said.
I haven't been able to get a helicopter over me yet. I am leaving work in 2 hours to drive out to Philly for my mapping appointment. Maybe just maybe there will be another trauma helicopter landing but I rather have a news helicopter instead of trauma.
I have more in my blog which I will just copy and paste
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I heard the crunch of the asparagus! Who knew they were noisy little botanical vegetables?
This weekend was the first weekend that I was truly bionic. I cannot say I did much because I was trying to acclimate myself to this nonsense noise. When I least expected it I heard things. I discovered places like Costco and Kohl's are noisy. Restaurants with football games on are rowdy. I was a good 50 feet away when I heard this guy yell something footballish.
I went to Pathmark to pick up a few things and I was debating on what kind of frozen corn I should purchase, white or yellow. All of the sudden I heard a man talking which I felt like it was RIGHT next to me. I looked to my left and there was no one there of the male gender. I looked to my right and sure enough, there was a man, a nice looking one at that, talking to his son with the freezer door open about 25 feet away from me. Mind you, I didn’t make out a word he said, just the fact that I heard him was enough for Harmony to get a nice little pat on the magnet.
A similar occurrence happened again when I went to the Halloween store. I was talking to my sick as a dog friend who was helping me brainstorm on what godforsaken costume I should be for Halloween. After trying on six costumes and I was happy with not a one, we decided to roam around. Mind you changing through that many costumes tends to knock a magnet off. We are roaming around looking at all the different decorations, and this man comes around the corner and he is about ten feet away. I heard him as if he was standing right next to me. In all the excitement, I proclaimed to my friend that I heard him and she coughed back, “I can’t”, and she is hearing. I seem to be picking up men, well their voices at least.
At let me see, what else? Ah yes, the desert episode! My mother and I were each having a single serving each of fat free chocolate pudding. My mother was practically digging a hole to china at the bottom of the plastic cup trying to get every bit of it that I heard clear as a bell. It was almost normal.
When the faucet unleashes the fury of water down the drain, I can hear it. It has gotten much louder and pronounced since my activation.
I have started to listen to Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. I can follow along as long as I have the book, otherwise I would be lost.
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Now I have a daunting task of trying to figure out which program I like the best.
Program one seems very soft with the volume maxed out.
Program two I can have the volume up all the way but it comes with a lot of static.
Program three I can have the volume up all the way and the static is not so bad. The tinkling is noticeable on this one. Music sounds better on this one too.
I don't know which one to pick because they all sound SO similar except for little variations here and there.
I will post again when I get home from the mapping session. Wish me luck here!!