Re: Tears at Hook Up

[Guest guest]

Hi Carol in MI

Congratulations on terrific hook-up! You are very fortunate to have

commprehension so quickly! Looking forward to reading about how things continue

to

improve and may you have many CI moments.

[Guest guest]

Beautiful, Carol. This is what it's all about. Those tears of joy are so very

real. After all the wondering, your fears have been calmed. You came thru the

difficult parts and yesterday was your reward. All those sounds that you

enjoyed made every step to this day worth it, I'm sure.

Congratulations! I'm very happy for you and I'm going to be looking for those

ci moments because they are sure to come.

What a nice message. Thank you so much for letting us know. One thing very few

people mention is how the implant impacts a marriage. The spouse is a huge part

of this process. I'm glad your husband was with you when you went for your

activation.

Have a wonderful hearing day, Carol. No thanks are necessary for the support we

share. Now you know what all the excitement is about.

Alice

[Guest guest]

One last email before I head for my dr appt.

Carol,

I am sooo happy for you. I know you've dreamed of this day for some

time now and now you know that dreams do come true!

Remember, it does get better, and you may even have some frustrating

days ahead. The important part is that you were able to hear sound

that first day so you know all is in working order. Hearing those

grandbabies made me smile as that was one of my most memorable

moments too. I actually got to hear my youngest grandsons cries at

birth!

So glad the hard parts are over now and hope to hear about your

continuing journey with sound.

Hugs,

Silly MI

In , " Alice " <justagram@c...> wrote:

> Beautiful, Carol. This is what it's all about. Those tears of joy

are so very real. After all the wondering, your fears have been

calmed. You came thru the difficult parts and yesterday was your

reward. All those sounds that you enjoyed made every step to this

day worth it, I'm sure.

>

> Congratulations! I'm very happy for you and I'm going to be

looking for those ci moments because they are sure to come.

>

> What a nice message. Thank you so much for letting us know. One

thing very few people mention is how the implant impacts a

marriage. The spouse is a huge part of this process. I'm glad your

husband was with you when you went for your activation.

>

> Have a wonderful hearing day, Carol. No thanks are necessary for

the support we share. Now you know what all the excitement is about.

>

> Alice

>

>

[Guest guest]

Carol,

I am very happy for you, and I was very much delighted and touched by your

wonderful experience. This is indeed a great moment to treasure.

Congratulations!

Best Wishes

Zohra

cbm_1933 <mcm@...> wrote:

CI Friends, Yesterday, Jan 13, at 4:30 pm, after the T and M levels

were set my aundie, Amy, flipped the switch to speech and I broke

into tears. " Can you understand me? " me she said as clearly as I

have heard in more years than I can remember. Then my husband in a

voice I could tell was choked with emotion said, " Honey, can you

hear me too? " More tears and now I neeeded a kleenex. I would have

drowned the processor in tears of joy. I was not looking at either

of them to read their lips either.

Next she did some fun testing kind of things with her face

completely covered. vowels, colors, numbers, I'm missing the shh

and r right now which she said is pretty normal as those are the

last sounds kids learn. But I could repat to her almost 90% of what

she said.

The quality of what I am hearing is astounding for me. It does not

sound so much mechanical as it sounds like there is an echo. I

could tell the difference in pitch between her voice and my husbands

though he sounded higher pitched than I had imagined. And all this

with a body worn Platinum processor too as my auria had not arrived

yet. Tomorrow I go back for the second map and the BTE is being

overnighted.

I had planned to go to a friends house to hide out as I anticipated

not liking what I would hear at activation. I steped outside and

could hear the traffic on the nearby highway, the car door open, and

then

close, a bell dinging and the ignition turn over in the car, my

husbands excited voice as he asked, " can you hear that, can you hear

that " . I wanted to go to our sons and see if I could hear the four

young grandsons, two of whom I have never heard their voices.

I could hear them all. Hello Grandma sounded so sweet and the

smiles on their faces when I told them I heard that and now they

were

in trouble because I would be able to hear them. " No Grandma, I can

be quiet " the ten year old told me. Their father, our youngest son

speaks very low pitch and I lost his voice at least 15 years ago.

Though I could not catch every thing he said I could understand most

of it. And I knew the difference between his voice and his wifes.

Things are like I said a little echoing and more than one person at

a time is not clear. We went to a third sons house then and again

the youngest of their two boys I heard for the very first time, and

again I could tell the difference of his voice from his older

brother.

Other sounds I can hear, the water from the faucet, paper not

sounding un pleasent at all when rustling just sounding good to me.

A dish in the sink, a book sat down on the counter. I feel like a

sponge wanting more and more. Things seemed to be changing a little

then so I flipped to the second slot which Amy said was just a

little louder, then tried the third slot too, also just louder. Not

uncomfortable at all but not nessecarily clearer so I went back to

slot one. But now I felt exhausted and sleepy so went up to bed to

read and it was only 9:30. It had been an emotional, wonderful

day. I woke up at 2:30 and just lie listening to the silence and

wanting to get up and put the processor back on. LOL. I decided to

come down stairs and log on to share all of this joy with all of

you. Thank you my CI friends who have helped prepare me for this

day. Of course I thanked my surgeon and his team even before

activation earlier in the day. I'll keep my CI moments coming.

Carol in Michigan

K90 12=17=03

hook up 1-13-04