Re: something happened today

[Guest guest]

,

I want to thank you for all the sharing you have done about your experience with

your

CI. Each journal you have sent has been very interesting and I have not

recently told you how much I enjoy reading them.

Today's message was very special as I could tell that you were very surprised at

what you heard. That's a CI Moment and sometimes they just happen without

warning and give us very special moments.

Good luck with Speak. I don't prefer it to ACE but you just might. A lot of

people prefer Speak. I'm surprised your audiologist hasn't tried this already

but it's good that you are headed in that direction next month. In my opinion,

it's quite different than ACE.

Alice

From as long as I can remember that whenever I needed to talk to someone I

had to get right up to them. Since my implant I have 'heard' the voices of

people but not able to understand them. Well today I was walking to the

store to get a paper and saw a pastor that I knew (church is in

neighborhood but I don't attend the church) and said 'hi' that you don't

have to go far to work anymore (the church bought the house next door to

the church). He said 'no' but it was a big move from a bigger place to a

smaller place, but the two older boys were in college now. Ok... this is

the conversation, the big part was that I was NOT NEAR HIM AS HE TALKED. I

was in the alley and he was by his back door which was quite a distance. I

understand every word he said. Of course it was quiet (no cars, no wind,

no airplanes etc.) but it was still something I never could have done with

my HA.

susan & hobbes

michigan

ps.. the voices are still the pits. Been emailing with the audi and she

has been in contact with Cochlear and they suggested I switch from ACE to

Speak. So next month I am going to try and go down for a switch.

[Guest guest]

What are Ace and Speak? My audiologist never mentioned either!

Original Message:

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From: A ADAMS justagram14@...

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:44:55 -0600

Subject: Re: something happened today

,

I want to thank you for all the sharing you have done about your experience

with your

CI. Each journal you have sent has been very interesting and I have not

recently told you how much I enjoy reading them.

Today's message was very special as I could tell that you were very

surprised at what you heard. That's a CI Moment and sometimes they just

happen without warning and give us very special moments.

Good luck with Speak. I don't prefer it to ACE but you just might. A lot

of people prefer Speak. I'm surprised your audiologist hasn't tried this

already but it's good that you are headed in that direction next month. In

my opinion, it's quite different than ACE.

Alice

From as long as I can remember that whenever I needed to talk to someone

I

had to get right up to them. Since my implant I have 'heard' the voices

of

people but not able to understand them. Well today I was walking to the

store to get a paper and saw a pastor that I knew (church is in

neighborhood but I don't attend the church) and said 'hi' that you don't

have to go far to work anymore (the church bought the house next door to

the church). He said 'no' but it was a big move from a bigger place to a

smaller place, but the two older boys were in college now. Ok... this is

the conversation, the big part was that I was NOT NEAR HIM AS HE TALKED.

I

was in the alley and he was by his back door which was quite a distance.

I

understand every word he said. Of course it was quiet (no cars, no wind,

no airplanes etc.) but it was still something I never could have done

with

my HA.

susan & hobbes

michigan

ps.. the voices are still the pits. Been emailing with the audi and she

has been in contact with Cochlear and they suggested I switch from ACE to

Speak. So next month I am going to try and go down for a switch.

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Nice to hear from you. I hope you like your new New England home.

ACE and Speak are speech strategies on the Nucleus product. You wouldn't be

able to get them on your Clarion implant.

Alice

What are Ace and Speak? My audiologist never mentioned either!

[Guest guest]

I'm a pre-ling and using CI for a year and 4 months. I've been using

SPEAK for a year. I tried using ACE several months ago. I've been using

it in about 1 /2 months. ACE works well in quiet environment but very

poor in noisy environment. Most of the sounds are in " high frequency "

which it's too high for me to listen. It's a big different between SPEAK

and ACE in sounds. I rather stick to SPEAK. I've had some CI moments

without lipreading in some words, but not in sentences yet. There's still

waiting to be happened.

-gs

--

Greg Swager

gswager@...

[Guest guest]

Hi Greg. I am going to the audi on the 6th of Aug to switch over to

SPEAK. I have no real problem with ACE except for the whiny sound with

peoples voices. I am hoping that SPEAK will not take away the environment

sounds that I have come to look for. I have gotten to the point where cars

don't bother me as much, but still sometimes sound like an emergency

vehicle going by. Did you noticed any difference between SPEAK and ACE

with the environment sounds?

susan & hobbes

michigan

At 12:42 PM 7/19/2004 -0600, you wrote:

>I'm a pre-ling and using CI for a year and 4 months. I've been using

>SPEAK for a year. I tried using ACE several months ago. I've been using

>it in about 1 /2 months. ACE works well in quiet environment but very

>poor in noisy environment. Most of the sounds are in " high frequency "

>which it's too high for me to listen. It's a big different between SPEAK

>and ACE in sounds. I rather stick to SPEAK. I've had some CI moments

>without lipreading in some words, but not in sentences yet. There's still

>waiting to be happened.

>-gs

>

>--

>Greg Swager

>gswager@...