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I had meningitis at age 2. I don't remember any effort from HA in my left ear, so I guess it was dead. And I got CI there, after 10 years. It was almost 13 years ago and CIs weren't very much used yet (at least in my country), so doctors decided to implant worse ear because if something went...

I can. But as I listen only to English/German bands, I need to read and/or learn lyrics, because both languages are foreign languages for me, so I'm not able to understand them when listening only :) But if there isn't too loud music and the singing is clear, I'm sometimes (but quite rarely)...

In my family I'm able to tell who is talking .. but well, it isn't too hard because there are only 3 people :D Mom, dad and brother have each a bit different voice. Sounds like alvin & chipmunks appears only shortly after the activation, when you need to get used to those new sounds.. then...

wow, so many "relatives" here :D Slovakia is still our closest neighbour and honestly I still don't know why it was necessary to divide Czechoslovakia into Czech Rep & Slovakia. It has some disadvantages too - for example children and young people don't understand Slovak/Czech. I remember when...

Yay, thanks for your answer! It's really interesting for me. You wrote that you didn't get used to your right CI because of the time of deafness .. well, I'm not really sure if this could be the reason. There are people who got CI after more years of deafness and they still got used to it...

drphil: hm, I would say that at late-deafened it makes sense to go bilateral - if you heard normally before, why should you have only one "ear" after? Interesting. Bon: thanks for answer. When I was implanted 12 years ago, I got the CI into my worse ear (left), which has no benefits from HA...

Hello, well, after some time of posting here I finally forced myself to write some introduction :D I'm Katka (something like short version of Catherine in my language) and I'm from the Czech Republic - it's a small country in the middle of Europe. Here is a link if you want to know...

lol, I expected that you'll be one of first posters :D I read some of your topics before, but I don't remember writting very much about feelings of being bilateral.. maybe I just overlooked it? Or you didn't really write about it? Maybe posting a compete response here would be interesting for...

Hi :) I'm considering getting second CI, but the fact is that I have my CI more than 12 years now. And the second fact is that in my country bilateral CIs aren't standard (we have only 4-5 bilaterally implanted people), so I guess I'll need to "fight" with my health insurance company...

Everyday + subtitles :)

I upgraded from SPrint to N5 3 weeks ago. And for music I use Everyday map too, because I feel that I understand more than with Music map. I like song lyrics, so I want to understand it :) But I didn't test the Music map very much, so maybe it's just about getting used to it.

I'm not really sure, but I think I had this test too. Or at least something similar. The problem is that I had it almost 13 years ago and I don't remember it very much :) But I remeber that I had this test twice because first result wasn't very good. Second result was better. I think they...

Exactly, I have better and worse times.. Sometimes I also make absolutely stupid beginner's errors. No idea, why. But who cares, if you understand me, right? :) When I wrote my first posts from this nick, I was a bit angry, so maybe it could influence my writting too. And btw, I'm a...

It depends. Sometimes I'm really really trying to write correctly (with more or less success) because I don't want to present myself as an idiot :D and sometimes I don't care about it and write just what comes on my mind and ignore even those basic rules like capital letters and punctuation and...

Oh, do you know the term "hyperbole"? :) And about my English - English is not my mother language, so the level of my English expressions can vary, depending on the complexity of what I want to say :P

Well, I don't think I have only "some" access to sound with a CI. I guess I can hear almost everything, but the main problem is distinguishing those sounds. Especially in noisy situations where lots of sounds are mixed and I'm not able to catch those important sounds correctly. So I describe...

Well, now I have my hair long enough to cover my CI, but it isn't really intended :) I had short hair for 15 years and didn't care if my CI is visible or not. My best friend wanted to see me with longer hair, so I tried it - two years ago I had my last short-cut. And it has some advantages...

ok, thanks for answers :) But it didn't help me very much - I still can't decide if I try it or not, haha -.-

uh, anyone else who has some experiences with earhooks? :)

Alex: thanks for answer. I didn't post any links to extern websites except one post where I was asking for some accessories to CI processors. But nevermind.. if the deletion is irreversible, I can use this new acount and hope that it won't be deleted again :) Jazzberry: Thanks. I enjoy it...