Gayle: Audiologists and a Question

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In a message dated 10/29/2004 12:48:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

rlclark77@... writes:

I love Meat Loaf too....the kind that gets baked in the oven.

I 2nd,,, who or what is Meat Loaf if its not a food?

Lee

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Gayle,

Exactly! In my 18 years of wearing hearing aids, I've worked with a grand

total of 3 audis. Two of them were wonderful to work with. The third one was

not. Oh well! As the old Meat Loaf song says, " Two out of three ain't bad. "

LOL!

CI candidate awaiting insurance approval and surgery date

[Guest guest]

I forgot to include my question. <blush> Once I have my implant, is it

likely that my CI audi will be able to address my CI *and* hearing aid

needs? For convenience sake, I'd much rather see one audiologist instead of

two.

CI candidate awaiting insurance approval and surgery date

[Guest guest]

....I don't see why one audiologist couldn't handle both

devices. Just make certain that the audiologist is trained to work

with your CI as that would require further education beyond working

with hearing aids, etc. I'm getting so excited for you! I do like

your theory that listening with both devices would be the faster way

to relearn sounds. There may be a scientific reason to say that's

wrong thinking, but why learn to hear with a hearing aid, drop that

and then learn again with the CI, then a 3rd time to combine the

two? Seems to me it would be more time effective to work with them

together. I'm not sure but maybe you're breaking new ground here. I

say go for it and my fingers are crossed that you get an approval

from your insurance today!!

--Gayle

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> I forgot to include my question. <blush> Once I have my implant, is

it

> likely that my CI audi will be able to address my CI *and* hearing

aid

> needs? For convenience sake, I'd much rather see one audiologist

instead of

> two.

>

>

> CI candidate awaiting insurance approval and surgery date

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

It would very be surprising that the same audie would not be able to deal

with your two aids, thought these aids will be different. For my part the

problem will not happen cause I am bilateral. Good luck to you in your

journey to sound.

Jacques

At 13:24 2004-10-29 -0500, you wrote:

>I forgot to include my question. <blush> Once I have my implant, is it

>likely that my CI audi will be able to address my CI *and* hearing aid

>needs? For convenience sake, I'd much rather see one audiologist instead of

>two.

>

>

>CI candidate awaiting insurance approval and surgery date

>

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>

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[Guest guest]

Don't you love MeatLoaf? He's one of my favorites.

G.

> Gayle,

>

> Exactly! In my 18 years of wearing hearing aids, I've worked with a

grand

> total of 3 audis. Two of them were wonderful to work with. The

third one was

> not. Oh well! As the old Meat Loaf song says, " Two out of three

ain't bad. "

> LOL!

>

>

> CI candidate awaiting insurance approval and surgery date

[Guest guest]

I love Meat Loaf too....the kind that gets baked in the oven.

(well what did they expect?)

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Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

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& Gimlet (Guide Dawggie)

Portland, Oregon

N24C 3G 8/2000 Hookup

rlclark77@...

http://home.comcast.net/~rlclark77/

[Guest guest]

Lee,

Meat Loaf was a music band from the 70's. He (or should I say the group)

released several albums including one that topped the charts in 1977-1978 --

" Bat Out of Hell. "

CI candidate awaiting insurance approval and surgery date

[Guest guest]

, I think you mentioned your CI center is a larger one. If so,

it's more than likely they also deal with hearing aids, and very

well at that. I know my CI center does, as it is a very large

university ENT center. They probably have close to 7-8 audi's at any

given time, many/most trained in both CI and HA.

I agree wholeheartedly with you about a CI and HA together. I did

that until I lost what hearing I had in the HA ear. The CI and HA

together for me formed a great synergy. That's me...it's not

everyone. Your surgeon/audi will have their own opinions as to

wearing a HA with a CI based on your hearing history overall.

Now, on the lighter side...we gotta do something about you and

, LOL! Who works for an airline and can arrange comp tix for

one or the other to make a visit? The dogs too! Who knows...they

might hit it off also!

McNamara

N24 10/99, 3G 5/02

> Gayle, Jacques and Alice,

>

> Thank you all for your replies!

>

> I'll e-mail my CI audi to find out if I can continue seeing her

for any

> issues related to my hearing aid. I suspected that she might have

knowledge

> about both but I wasn't sure since not all hearing aid

audiologists deal

> with CIs and vice versa.

>

> Gayle: I'm so glad my audi, surgeon and I are all on the same page

regarding

> using a hearing aid in my unimplanted ear. The last thing I want

is for the

> hearing in that ear to atrophy. Aside from the fact that God gave

us two

> ears to hear with, being able to hear binaurally (even if the

sound in my

> right ear is distorted) will help me achieve greater speech

understanding

> than if I only used my CI alone. I will be getting my right ear

implanted

> eventually but until that happens, I'd like to continue using the

aidable

> hearing I still have. On another subject, it sounds like you and

Jacques are

> making excellent progress with your CIs!! Congratulations!! I'm so

excited

> for you both!! I'm sure both of your audis are very proud of the

progress

> you've made!! Keep up the great work!! <smile>

>

>

> CI candidate awaiting insurance approval and surgery date