Guest guest Posted April 10, 2004 Report Share Posted April 10, 2004 Wow you score very good. I only score with that accuracy if I know " what " is being discussed and it makes things easier to keep track. Regards/ Jerome Re: Evel , Thanks.. As soon as I get ALL my taste back I will be as good as new. I am already a very good lip reader.. I found out when I tested for my CI that I was about 90% accurate with NO sound and 100% with sound.. With sound and no lips to see I was 10%? I am taking it easy.. Evel > Hey Evel, > GREAT that you're recovery is uneventful so far. Just don't get > carried away and start planting trees on Arbor Day. Reminds me of a > joke. In your honor we planted a tree in Israel for you. Tuesday is > your day to water it!! > > Lip reading will come in handy for you in many situations. Especially > when watching FOOTBALL games. My my, those coaches have colorful > vocabularies! > > Happy Spring, > > Nucleus volunteer > > Hi All, > Hope you all have a nice Good Friday today and a happy Easter Sunday! > I will get my stitches out today. Surgery on April Fools day and > Stitches removed on Good Friday )hmm Perhaps turn on will be on > " Arbor day " ;o) > I am still a little sore but getting better by the day.. I can still > hear just a little. (for those that don't know, I am deaf in my > right ear and had my good left ear implanted). I do great with my wife > and kids lip-reading. I very seldom have to ask them to write anything > down.. > > Cheers, > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 Evel, you impatient patient!! I was in clinical trials for the Nucleus 24 way back 7 years ago, and at that time I had MORE mappings, closer together, than usual. And I had one map per WEEK. Doing them 2 days in a row is fairly recent. Of course the one map I got lasted 3 hours the first time. So it was kind of a LONG day. But that might be what your audiologist has in mind for you. A long session rather than 2 short ones. And if she puts 2 maps on, you can play with them for the 16 days. Good luck, practice patience, patient. Nucleus Volunteer From: " evel339 " <evel339@...> Subject: Re: Mapping Thanks mary.. I believe its because they scheduled too many surgeries all at once.. But I don't see why I should be made to suffer! I will discuss it with my Audie at hook up. Cheers, Evel ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 , Thanks.. As strange as it sounds, my eyes were better only while I was completely Deaf before my hook up. As soon as I was hooked up for a few days I started needing my glasses all the time.. I think when we lose one sense we gain some in others?? I think i will be my Audies Poster patient soon ) I can't wait to see him again. My M.A.D. (Multiple Accent Disorder) is slowly being cured ) I want to have my other ear done as soon as I get this one tuned in pretty good.. I am going to try to practice on the phone with my wife soon.. To re-gain use of a phone was my biggest goal before surgery.. Music is sounding better every day.. I think it will be even better after I get my next maps and get used to them for a while.. Evel Surgery April 1st Hook up May 5th Soon to be bilateral > Hey Evel, > What else did they do to you besides the implant. Your eyesight is > better, and now you are " speaking in tongues " Actually, you will improve > your speech now that you can hear yourself and know what you sound like. > However, I won't be a bit surprised if you can't hear your wife when she > asks you to do work. A lot of men have " selective deafness " for that > kind of thing. LOL. > I'm thrilled that this is going so well for you and that you are like > a kid again. It's a great gift, and you're very lucky that it worked so > well so fast for you. Keep up the enthusiasm. > > > Nucleus Volunteer > > For my crazy thing.. My wife says I have a speaking disorder much > like a Muliple personality Disorder ) As i speak and I am hearing > my voice I change my accent sometimes and she says its like talking > to different people ) It happens more when I talk in long > sentences.. Several people have already said " Your speach is so much > more clear " Another friend said my lisp is gone.. My wife and I have > a saying " Wow, all I can say is Wow " It comes to mind when I think > of things like this.. > > Can you tell i am like a little boy again ) > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 Hi, Evil, Happy anniversary! Seventeen years is nothing to sneeze at! I'm wondering if your wife's philosophy is similar to mine? In the almost 34 years I've been married, (yes, to the same guy! ), I've always maintained that what's mine is mine and what's HIS is mine. Also, compromise is the solution to all marital problems - on HIS part! LOL Of course, hubby has agreed to these terms unequivably NO! NO!!!!!! (oh geez, hubby just walked in and caught me, the NO is his! LOL) Anyway, many more years of continued happiness. As far as posting your CI moments and amazing success, your SHOULD feel awful - I think we will shoot you on site/sight! LOL Evel? Please know that if you stop posting your wonderful results I will have to hunt you down and wring your neck! Hmmm - or I will e-mail your lovely wife who will probably be glad to do it for me! LOL Listen, it is posts like yours that encourage us " slower " users to keep going. I feel if it is working for all of you guys, it will surely work for me! I do know that I am getting benefit from the CI and would not go back for anything. I work with kids who wear CI's - and knew going into this thing that some had amazing success (they are the reason I decided to go for it) and others for whom the CI doesn't yet appear to have given any benefit. I will never give up - so not to worry. Reading stories like yours gives me reference to point to when someone lets me know that I didn't hear them (duh! LOL) Years ago, I traveled far to have experimental acupuncture treatments to try to restore my hearing. (Yes, it hurt, don't let any fool tell you needles in your head don't! LOL) It didn't work. But ya' know what? If I hadn't tried I would always wonder if it might have. I even tried the treatment again years later (@ 4 years ago) just in case it would work this time! Nope! I feel the same about my CI. I had nothing to lose, and if I hadn't gotten it I'd still be wondering if I could be hearing. Again - please note that I do feel I benefit from it, though not to the extent I would've hoped. Time is on my side, though, I'm in my young 50's, and I come from good stock! (grandparents lived to be 96) LOL Oh yeah - to answer your questions - I don't hear %%$* without my CI and/or hearing aid. I don't know numbers. I was born with what, I'm guessing, was a mild loss and got progressively worse over the years. With my hearing aid in my unimplanted ear I get 13% distinction. My implanted ear had no distinction at all. I was implanted with the Nucleus Contour at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) by Dr. Ruckenstein. He is an excellent surgeon and partners with a Dr. Bigalow, both of whom are very active in continueing their education and updating their knowledge and skills. For the first year following implantation I was mapped at HUP by a very good audiologist using the 3G right from the beginning. I have since switched to Mr. Bill Shapiro at New York University Cochlear Implant Center. He is very flexible and allows me to try anything I bring him from what I've read here, then I allow him to use his expertise to map me properly! LOL Again - I thank you so much for writing to me. Please continue to post your progress, as it gives all of us a boost to know that this amazing technology can work so well. My posts remind people to keep their feet on the ground and be realistic in expectations. I hope I do that with a positive spin. I know this is going to get better. I will continue to knock my head against the wall to try to jumpstart my brain! LOL Continued success!! Jackie (Flash) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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