CI Moments - Page 14

Cloggy · 04-21-2008, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by neecy

Oh I get a kick out of catching what the captions don't say. I hadn't realized until I got my CI that in many cases the captions are a "condensed" version of what is really being said! This is particularly true when they decide to caption old movies.

Even as a hearing person I can relate to that.
In The Netherlands, foreign movies are captioned. So, we learn our English from very young age by reading the subtitles... at some point I stopped reading the subtitles since the translation was often wrong, or changed. Especially with funny stuff (Monty Python, Spitting Image e.g. ) it was more fun to listen to the language than reading the translation..

So glad we never had dubbed movies like in other European countries...

StacieLeigh · 04-21-2008, 03:18 PM

I had a funny CI moment couple of months ago lol.
i had ran out of dryer sheets and had to go without and the clothes were full of static. They actually make sounds!!! I never knew that and no one never told me, I just couldn't believe it! lol then again they were shocked that I never knew lol.
have a good day!
Stacie

ashleysmommy · 04-23-2008, 07:35 PM

I have a couple of moments. We have our first official word or words. Ashley has been repeating animal sounds and doing lots of singing(her version any way). Yesterday she slipped and I said uh ooh and she said it back to me. It caught me off so I did it again and she repeated it. I changed it up a bit to make sure it was intentional and she consistently would tell me uh ooh. She is at the stage that she like to have her implants on all the time. She even will not fall asleep with out them on. I pull them off once she is out good. The other night not thinking I sneezed and she jumped. It is so wonderful to see her noticing so many new sounds. Things she never even would pay attention to she stops and listens to them now.

deafskeptic · 04-23-2008, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ashleysmommy

I have a couple of moments. We have our first official word or words. Ashley has been repeating animal sounds and doing lots of singing(her version any way). Yesterday she slipped and I said uh ooh and she said it back to me. It caught me off so I did it again and she repeated it. I changed it up a bit to make sure it was intentional and she consistently would tell me uh ooh. She is at the stage that she like to have her implants on all the time. She even will not fall asleep with out them on. I pull them off once she is out good. The other night not thinking I sneezed and she jumped. It is so wonderful to see her noticing so many new sounds. Things she never even would pay attention to she stops and listens to them now.

Awesome!

R2D2 · 04-24-2008, 09:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ashleysmommy

I have a couple of moments. We have our first official word or words. Ashley has been repeating animal sounds and doing lots of singing(her version any way). Yesterday she slipped and I said uh ooh and she said it back to me. It caught me off so I did it again and she repeated it. I changed it up a bit to make sure it was intentional and she consistently would tell me uh ooh. She is at the stage that she like to have her implants on all the time. She even will not fall asleep with out them on. I pull them off once she is out good. The other night not thinking I sneezed and she jumped. It is so wonderful to see her noticing so many new sounds. Things she never even would pay attention to she stops and listens to them now.

Lovely moment!

Cheri · 04-30-2008, 06:48 AM

Interesting stories.

I had a few chuckles from here and there. Thanks for sharing, keep them coming.

neecy · 04-30-2008, 12:52 PM

I had a kind of "CI" moment yesterday. I went to a new hair salon to get my hair cut. Of course I have to remove my CI, and I realized that I could not, for the life of me, lipread one WORD from my hairdresser. She did NOT move her lips at all. She might as well have had her hand over her mouth, for all I could understand. WITH the CI on though, I understood her perfectly, so she'd stop to ask me a question and have me put the CI on, then I'd take it back off. Was a bit cumbersome, but she was *very* understanding! I'll be going back to her.

vallee · 05-04-2008, 06:58 PM

I was sitting at the computer typing away and kept hearing this sound. I thought the oven was on or the microwave. I could not place the sound. It took over an hour to figure out it was the clock on the wall. I don't think I have ever heard that before.

I just might have to take all the batteries out of my clocks like Abbie did. The interesting thing is that even when it is a "quiet night" no tv, no music nothing it is still so noise.

Hear Again · 05-05-2008, 05:19 PM

I'm really enjoying reading everyone's CI moments! I had an interesting CI moment of my own today! While sitting outside listening to my radio I kept hearing this repetitive sound but couldn't identify what it was. After I turned down the volume of my radio, it finally dawned on me that the sound I was hearing was the "hoot" of an owl. I don't think I could readily recognize the sound because it has been over 10 years since I heard it last with hearing aids.

vallee · 05-14-2008, 08:40 PM

I had to set up for a special event in the gym yesterday. There was a static sound from the lights. I turned to a teacher and said - what is that sound? She said the lights it is some static. Then I ask, how long has it been making that sound. With a straight face, she said Oh you heard it today, but it been the same for the last 14 years you have been here. We both laughed. New sounds each day, I have been in the gym many times since activation and yesterday was the first time I heard it.

deafmama78 · 05-15-2008, 05:15 AM

Latest CI moment: Yesterday I was at the nearby high school for my daughters' dress rehersal. Their recital is Friday and Saturday. I didn't volunteer backstage as I normally would due to just having surgery. Anyways, I was reminded just how thankful I am having my CI. I could hear and follow instructions from people without having anyone to repeat. I had a 10 minutes convo with a woman I have never met before. Another Mom whose daughter dances with my youngest daughter. I came back in the dressing room to find my daughter but her group has already left to go to the auditorium to watch a few performances before they had to go backstage again. Anyways the little girl said "What's wrong with your eye?" [It was swollen last Friday/Saturday, but has since went away, now it's just a simple black eye, along with alot of yellow'ish area all over the side of my face. Not a pretty sight. heh.] So, I explained to her and her Mom. "Well, I just had surgery last week to receive my 2nd cochlear implant, to help me hear better" The Mom perked up and said "Cochlear IMplant?!" and immeditely wanted to know more about it. I even showed her my processor and the inscision. She was so amazed. That felt really good, being able to educate her about CI's and having a perfect convo.

My other moment was in the auditorium. I realized that I still had a heck of a time understanding when someone is giving a speech because I am now where near close and she didn't even have a microphone on [but they will on recital night] so while I could hear her perfectly, I just couldn't understand much of what she was saying. But others around me were saying the same thing. Then, I realized while the kids were doing their songs, I had a flashback from my dancing days and while I could hear music with my hearing aids. I am reminded at how much more I could hear with my CI.

Sorry for typos. I just woke up 20 minutes ago being in alot of pain and my 5 yr old just walked in here to climb in bed next to me. She's such a cutie, snuggling with her "blanky" that has her name on it.

R2D2 · 05-16-2008, 03:44 AM

What nice moments everyone

Cheri · 05-17-2008, 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vallee

I had to set up for a special event in the gym yesterday. There was a static sound from the lights. I turned to a teacher and said - what is that sound? She said the lights it is some static. Then I ask, how long has it been making that sound. With a straight face, she said Oh you heard it today, but it been the same for the last 14 years you have been here. We both laughed. New sounds each day, I have been in the gym many times since activation and yesterday was the first time I heard it.

I bet you were so excite when you heard it for the first time ever.

vallee · 05-17-2008, 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cheri

I bet you were so excite when you heard it for the first time ever.

I was very excited, but each time I hear a "new" sound the people I am with seem to be more excited. One teacher told me it is like rediscoverying the world again through me.

R2D2 · 05-17-2008, 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vallee

I was very excited, but each time I hear a "new" sound the people I am with seem to be more excited. One teacher told me it is like rediscoverying the world again through me.

I can relate to that feeling. When I have overseas visitors I really enjoy travelling with them and looking at my country through their eyes. They notice the little things and details that I take for granted. When I first moved to Australia, I was in tourist mode for about a year.

It's also like that with small children too - they notice and take delight in things that we think are old hat.

I think people just find it refreshing to look at things from a new perspective.

deafmama78 · 05-28-2008, 11:45 PM

Hi everyone. I got activated today by my favorite audi, who is sadly moving to FL. So those of you in FL will be receiving a wonderful audi!!

Anyways, all I have to say is WHOA! This activation is soooo different from my 1st CI's activation. First off, when they turned it on, everything sounded odd but it went away almost right away. I was picking up speech right then and there. So my audi decided to go ahead and do a sentence test without lipreading and I did awesome. I don't know my score though.

See, last year, everything sounded like this awful band/music going on every time people spoke. It was hilarious. I didn't experience much of that cept for the first few minutes of being turned on. It is really odd! I asked her why am I picking things up so fast this time and she said it's cuz my brain is already used to knowing what things sounded like from having my 1st CI for 11 mos now, plus the 27 yrs of wearing hearing aids.

I noticed right away the huge different in getting my 2nd CI. I am soooooo excited every time I'm using both CI's and realizing just how much of a difference it made! I'm not supposed to use both CI's unless I am having a convo with somoene. My audi prefers that I only wear the new CI for one week then wear both CI's next week, June 4th when I in for my 1 yr mapping of old CI and my 2 wks mapping of new CI. She's doing it early cuz I'll be on vacation the following week. She said the reason for this is because she wants my left ear to get used to the CI and to prevent my right ear to have a "preference" or a "better ear" over the other. If I had both CI's done at once and both CI's activated at once, then I'd be wearing both from day one but I didn't go that way because I thought I'd just use one CI/one hearing aid but obivously, it didn't turn out that way. heh.

This is now a bit off topic -- While giving me my box full of CI stuff from Cochlear - She also handed me this Cochlear Implant journal thingy that Cochlear just recently startSorred giving out to all new CI'ers. I told her that it really sucks that I didn't have that last year, that would've been sooooo useful to write down everything last year!!!! She suggested trying to go back and remember things and write 'em down, which is what I may do.

deafmama78 · 05-28-2008, 11:51 PM

vallee: This is great that you posted that, it reminded me of last year when I was newly activated and went up north to my in laws' cottage for the 1st/2nd time as they had just offically brought it the day I was activated. Anyways, I noticed that I was hearing something but figure out wtf it was. It was driving me nuts so I asked my husband, he couldn't hear it, I asked my mother in law, she couldn't hear it. . . I told her that when i go in my bedroom the sound I was hearing fades a bit but i could still hear it well enough and when I go back in the living room, it gets louder. We all walked around and realized that what I was hearing was this certain clock tick tock'ing which is really difficult to hear unless it's so quiet there. Everyone was amazed that *I* could hear that and they couldn't but they did say that they must've just tuned it out since it's nothing new tot hem while it is new to me which makes sense cause now when I go there, I'm not noticing it as much anymore as I've learned to tune it out. heh.

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Originally Posted by vallee

I was sitting at the computer typing away and kept hearing this sound. I thought the oven was on or the microwave. I could not place the sound. It took over an hour to figure out it was the clock on the wall. I don't think I have ever heard that before.

I just might have to take all the batteries out of my clocks like Abbie did. The interesting thing is that even when it is a "quiet night" no tv, no music nothing it is still so noise.

LadySekhmet · 05-29-2008, 09:48 PM

Today a guy jump started my car - He says, "Okay you can go ahead and start your car now." Heard it very clearly, even when he was looking down. I *know* for a fact that I will never catch that if I had my HAs on. I know i probably would hear it if I was lipreading...but it's really cool to be able to pick up words without relying on lipreading only.

I know it's a little CI moment, but sometimes I just forget that I do have moments all the time....and it's just feels so natural to have CI, I can't wait for activation for my second one!

R2D2 · 06-06-2008, 09:46 PM

Hi all,

I noticed this thread has been delisted as a sticky for some reason that I don't know about and thought others should know in case they are wondering where it went too. I couldn't even find it and posted a query here http://www.alldeaf.com/forum-feedbac...tml#post998468

I'm hoping a mod will get back to me soon about asking to have it made a sticky again or at least give an explanation if it cannot be done.

neecy · 06-07-2008, 01:46 PM

I just noticed - I guess they figure the thread has "lived" long enough....I hope we can get enough posts to keep it on the front page at least, so others can find it.

Cloggy · 06-07-2008, 04:32 PM

Well..... I'm sure there are plenty of moments to keep this thread going for a long time.
It's inevitable.

SouthFella · 06-11-2008, 01:05 PM

Luckliy for me, I still have one ear with a digi hearing aid and the other ear with a CI less than 2 months. There is pro's and con's for either one. I am SO GLAD I didnt got bilateral at the same time.WHEW. When I am on the phone with my HA side I take the coil off my other ear so I don't have conflicting sounds with the HA and CI on the phone. Almost like a feedback sound so annoying. Since I have MEdEl CI, I am on the basic mapping of CIS and will request to go to the advance mapping called FSP on the next mapping in a few days. I do find it cool to hear both with a HA and a CI at the same time. Lot's of interesting moments.

deafmama78 · 06-26-2008, 06:00 PM

Quick CI moment during a very sad time in my life. Friday June 13th, I found out that one of my childhood best friends died. Her funeral was Saturday the 21st. My CI moment was during the funeral when my Aunt's pastor came in to talk about my friend. I was sitting in the middle row, so like 10 rows away from the front where he stood to talk about my friend. I understood 95% of what he was saying despite him not being anywhere near close to me and not having ever spoken to him before. It shocked me, so it didn't help that I cried even more, 1st because of my friend, obivously, 2nd was because of how well I understood and 3rd- my friend will never get to see me as a CI'er. She would've been sooo excited & proud for me. Plus she would get to have my old hearing aids. She had a thing for hearing aids. [It's an inside joke between us]

Vivie · 07-01-2008, 04:20 PM

I got one CI moment today...till now I was just hearing and figuring out what was that but most of the time was wrong...

I was shopping with a friendly couple that live at Hungary..we where at a dress shop , my female friend , wanted a good dress as she's graduating..whe were discussing what to choose and I was hearing her , but couldnt yet discriminate sadly so I was lipreading her..all these at a shop with the usual hubbub and noise..suddenly I heard some light slapping and I turned around and looked right at her bf! was slapping his stomach lightly as he was boooredd....and I located it right away and he was like 10 meters away from me , sitting at a couch and I had my back turned..and my other ear is totally deaf for like..fifteen years..and with my HA even powerful , had a lot of trouble locating sounds..CI is awesome..

I also discovered today that I can discriminate noises..ie I know when someone's talking , even at the noisy bus , and when it's a simple noise that needs locating..I also started recognising my landline phone ringing even when I least expect it...

after reading some of the posts of the bilaterals..wishing I could do my other ear....could be soooo nice!!

I had also some relevations like the clock ticking , the fan buzzing etc , but nothing too fun...as I knew them from HA days..but they do sound a bit al

04-23-2008, 07:35 PM	#393 (permalink)
ashleysmommy ashleysmommy Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Hampton, VA Posts: 266	I have a couple of moments. We have our first official word or words. Ashley has been repeating animal sounds and doing lots of singing(her version any way). Yesterday she slipped and I said uh ooh and she said it back to me. It caught me off so I did it again and she repeated it. I changed it up a bit to make sure it was intentional and she consistently would tell me uh ooh. She is at the stage that she like to have her implants on all the time. She even will not fall asleep with out them on. I pull them off once she is out good. The other night not thinking I sneezed and she jumped. It is so wonderful to see her noticing so many new sounds. Things she never even would pay attention to she stops and listens to them now. __________________ Smile ! It adds to your face value Right Side MED-EL Pulsar March 05, 2007 Activated April 05, 2007 with Tempo + Left Side MED-EL Sonata February 13, 2008 Activated March 12, 2008 with Opus 1

04-30-2008, 06:48 AM	#396 (permalink)
Cheri Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: All I wanted was a white knight with a good heart, soft touch, fast horse, ride me off into the sunset Posts: 20,225	Interesting stories. I had a few chuckles from here and there. Thanks for sharing, keep them coming. __________________

04-30-2008, 12:52 PM	#397 (permalink)
neecy Use the Google, Luke! Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Beautiful British Columbia Posts: 1,378	I had a kind of "CI" moment yesterday. I went to a new hair salon to get my hair cut. Of course I have to remove my CI, and I realized that I could not, for the life of me, lipread one WORD from my hairdresser. She did NOT move her lips at all. She might as well have had her hand over her mouth, for all I could understand. WITH the CI on though, I understood her perfectly, so she'd stop to ask me a question and have me put the CI on, then I'd take it back off. Was a bit cumbersome, but she was very understanding! I'll be going back to her. __________________ Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture http://www.taudiobook.com/closed_cap...y_pausch_full/ My CI blog: http://bionicgal.blogspot.com

05-04-2008, 06:58 PM	#398 (permalink)
vallee Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Tennessee Posts: 894	I was sitting at the computer typing away and kept hearing this sound. I thought the oven was on or the microwave. I could not place the sound. It took over an hour to figure out it was the clock on the wall. I don't think I have ever heard that before. I just might have to take all the batteries out of my clocks like Abbie did. The interesting thing is that even when it is a "quiet night" no tv, no music nothing it is still so noise. __________________ Right and Left Implanted July 19, 2007 Activated August 9, 2007 Both Advanced Bionics Harmony http://talesfromacigal.blogspot.com/

05-05-2008, 05:19 PM	#399 (permalink)
Hear Again Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 1,905	I'm really enjoying reading everyone's CI moments! I had an interesting CI moment of my own today! While sitting outside listening to my radio I kept hearing this repetitive sound but couldn't identify what it was. After I turned down the volume of my radio, it finally dawned on me that the sound I was hearing was the "hoot" of an owl. I don't think I could readily recognize the sound because it has been over 10 years since I heard it last with hearing aids. __________________ Hear Again Left ear - Nucleus 24 Contour Advance with Freedom BTE Implanted: 12/22/04 Activated: 1/18/05 Right ear - Nucleus Freedom Implanted: 2/1/06 Activated: 3/1/06 Deafblind/Postlingual

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04-21-2008, 03:18 PM	#392 (permalink)
StacieLeigh Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 150	I had a funny CI moment couple of months ago lol. i had ran out of dryer sheets and had to go without and the clothes were full of static. They actually make sounds!!! I never knew that and no one never told me, I just couldn't believe it! lol then again they were shocked that I never knew lol. have a good day! Stacie

05-14-2008, 08:40 PM	#400 (permalink)
vallee Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Tennessee Posts: 894	I had to set up for a special event in the gym yesterday. There was a static sound from the lights. I turned to a teacher and said - what is that sound? She said the lights it is some static. Then I ask, how long has it been making that sound. With a straight face, she said Oh you heard it today, but it been the same for the last 14 years you have been here. We both laughed. New sounds each day, I have been in the gym many times since activation and yesterday was the first time I heard it. __________________ Right and Left Implanted July 19, 2007 Activated August 9, 2007 Both Advanced Bionics Harmony http://talesfromacigal.blogspot.com/

05-15-2008, 05:15 AM	#401 (permalink)
deafmama78 Deaf Mama! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Somewhere in the US. Posts: 395	Latest CI moment: Yesterday I was at the nearby high school for my daughters' dress rehersal. Their recital is Friday and Saturday. I didn't volunteer backstage as I normally would due to just having surgery. Anyways, I was reminded just how thankful I am having my CI. I could hear and follow instructions from people without having anyone to repeat. I had a 10 minutes convo with a woman I have never met before. Another Mom whose daughter dances with my youngest daughter. I came back in the dressing room to find my daughter but her group has already left to go to the auditorium to watch a few performances before they had to go backstage again. Anyways the little girl said "What's wrong with your eye?" [It was swollen last Friday/Saturday, but has since went away, now it's just a simple black eye, along with alot of yellow'ish area all over the side of my face. Not a pretty sight. heh.] So, I explained to her and her Mom. "Well, I just had surgery last week to receive my 2nd cochlear implant, to help me hear better" The Mom perked up and said "Cochlear IMplant?!" and immeditely wanted to know more about it. I even showed her my processor and the inscision. She was so amazed. That felt really good, being able to educate her about CI's and having a perfect convo. My other moment was in the auditorium. I realized that I still had a heck of a time understanding when someone is giving a speech because I am now where near close and she didn't even have a microphone on [but they will on recital night] so while I could hear her perfectly, I just couldn't understand much of what she was saying. But others around me were saying the same thing. Then, I realized while the kids were doing their songs, I had a flashback from my dancing days and while I could hear music with my hearing aids. I am reminded at how much more I could hear with my CI. Sorry for typos. I just woke up 20 minutes ago being in alot of pain and my 5 yr old just walked in here to climb in bed next to me. She's such a cutie, snuggling with her "blanky" that has her name on it. __________________ -DeafMama78 Implanted [right ear]: May 17, 2007 w/ Freedom! Activated: June 21, 2007 & lovin' it! Implanted [left ear]: May 8th, 2008 w/ Freedom! Activation: May 28th, 2008 Offically a bilateral CI'er!

05-16-2008, 03:44 AM	#402 (permalink)
R2D2 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 2,575	What nice moments everyone __________________ Left ear implanted 9th June 2006 Activated 29th June 2006 Right ear implanted 31st August 2007 Activated 18th September Both Nucleus Freedom Cochlear implant myths

05-28-2008, 11:45 PM	#406 (permalink)
deafmama78 Deaf Mama! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Somewhere in the US. Posts: 395	2nd CI activation! Hi everyone. I got activated today by my favorite audi, who is sadly moving to FL. So those of you in FL will be receiving a wonderful audi!! Anyways, all I have to say is WHOA! This activation is soooo different from my 1st CI's activation. First off, when they turned it on, everything sounded odd but it went away almost right away. I was picking up speech right then and there. So my audi decided to go ahead and do a sentence test without lipreading and I did awesome. I don't know my score though. See, last year, everything sounded like this awful band/music going on every time people spoke. It was hilarious. I didn't experience much of that cept for the first few minutes of being turned on. It is really odd! I asked her why am I picking things up so fast this time and she said it's cuz my brain is already used to knowing what things sounded like from having my 1st CI for 11 mos now, plus the 27 yrs of wearing hearing aids. I noticed right away the huge different in getting my 2nd CI. I am soooooo excited every time I'm using both CI's and realizing just how much of a difference it made! I'm not supposed to use both CI's unless I am having a convo with somoene. My audi prefers that I only wear the new CI for one week then wear both CI's next week, June 4th when I in for my 1 yr mapping of old CI and my 2 wks mapping of new CI. She's doing it early cuz I'll be on vacation the following week. She said the reason for this is because she wants my left ear to get used to the CI and to prevent my right ear to have a "preference" or a "better ear" over the other. If I had both CI's done at once and both CI's activated at once, then I'd be wearing both from day one but I didn't go that way because I thought I'd just use one CI/one hearing aid but obivously, it didn't turn out that way. heh. This is now a bit off topic -- While giving me my box full of CI stuff from Cochlear - She also handed me this Cochlear Implant journal thingy that Cochlear just recently startSorred giving out to all new CI'ers. I told her that it really sucks that I didn't have that last year, that would've been sooooo useful to write down everything last year!!!! She suggested trying to go back and remember things and write 'em down, which is what I may do. __________________ -DeafMama78 Implanted [right ear]: May 17, 2007 w/ Freedom! Activated: June 21, 2007 & lovin' it! Implanted [left ear]: May 8th, 2008 w/ Freedom! Activation: May 28th, 2008 Offically a bilateral CI'er!

05-29-2008, 09:48 PM	#408 (permalink)
LadySekhmet Cyborg Queen Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: NJ Posts: 369	Today a guy jump started my car - He says, "Okay you can go ahead and start your car now." Heard it very clearly, even when he was looking down. I know for a fact that I will never catch that if I had my HAs on. I know i probably would hear it if I was lipreading...but it's really cool to be able to pick up words without relying on lipreading only. I know it's a little CI moment, but sometimes I just forget that I do have moments all the time....and it's just feels so natural to have CI, I can't wait for activation for my second one! __________________ LEFT: Implanted: 1/10/08 with Nucleus Freedom Implant Activated: 2/1/08 with Nucleus Freedom RIGHT: Implanted: 5/15/08 with Nucleus Freedom Implant Activated: 6/13/08 http://cyborgqueen.blogspot.com

06-06-2008, 09:46 PM	#409 (permalink)
R2D2 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 2,575	Hi all, I noticed this thread has been delisted as a sticky for some reason that I don't know about and thought others should know in case they are wondering where it went too. I couldn't even find it and posted a query here http://www.alldeaf.com/forum-feedbac...tml#post998468 I'm hoping a mod will get back to me soon about asking to have it made a sticky again or at least give an explanation if it cannot be done. __________________ Left ear implanted 9th June 2006 Activated 29th June 2006 Right ear implanted 31st August 2007 Activated 18th September Both Nucleus Freedom Cochlear implant myths

06-07-2008, 01:46 PM	#410 (permalink)
neecy Use the Google, Luke! Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Beautiful British Columbia Posts: 1,378	I just noticed - I guess they figure the thread has "lived" long enough....I hope we can get enough posts to keep it on the front page at least, so others can find it. __________________ Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture http://www.taudiobook.com/closed_cap...y_pausch_full/ My CI blog: http://bionicgal.blogspot.com

06-07-2008, 04:32 PM	#411 (permalink)
Cloggy Gravity Sucks Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Norway Posts: 3,631 Blog Entries: 5	Well..... I'm sure there are plenty of moments to keep this thread going for a long time. It's inevitable. __________________ . The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. . . . Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951) Information about . . . . . . . . . My daughter . . . . . . . . . How the ear works . . . . . . . . . Nonsense/ Myths about CI, here,or here.

06-11-2008, 01:05 PM	#412 (permalink)
SouthFella Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Colorado Posts: 84	Luckliy for me, I still have one ear with a digi hearing aid and the other ear with a CI less than 2 months. There is pro's and con's for either one. I am SO GLAD I didnt got bilateral at the same time.WHEW. When I am on the phone with my HA side I take the coil off my other ear so I don't have conflicting sounds with the HA and CI on the phone. Almost like a feedback sound so annoying. Since I have MEdEl CI, I am on the basic mapping of CIS and will request to go to the advance mapping called FSP on the next mapping in a few days. I do find it cool to hear both with a HA and a CI at the same time. Lot's of interesting moments. __________________ Implanted 04/23/2008... MedEl ( with nifty Remote Control } Right Ear, Phonak Savia Left Ear.

06-26-2008, 06:00 PM	#413 (permalink)
deafmama78 Deaf Mama! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Somewhere in the US. Posts: 395	Quick CI moment during a very sad time in my life. Friday June 13th, I found out that one of my childhood best friends died. Her funeral was Saturday the 21st. My CI moment was during the funeral when my Aunt's pastor came in to talk about my friend. I was sitting in the middle row, so like 10 rows away from the front where he stood to talk about my friend. I understood 95% of what he was saying despite him not being anywhere near close to me and not having ever spoken to him before. It shocked me, so it didn't help that I cried even more, 1st because of my friend, obivously, 2nd was because of how well I understood and 3rd- my friend will never get to see me as a CI'er. She would've been sooo excited & proud for me. Plus she would get to have my old hearing aids. She had a thing for hearing aids. [It's an inside joke between us] __________________ -DeafMama78 Implanted [right ear]: May 17, 2007 w/ Freedom! Activated: June 21, 2007 & lovin' it! Implanted [left ear]: May 8th, 2008 w/ Freedom! Activation: May 28th, 2008 Offically a bilateral CI'er!