Re: I'm Approved!!! (Sam)

[Guest guest]

Sam,

You will be fine and Good Luck! Please post as soon as you can

because we are going to be waiting to hear from you. Remember -

there is no time requirement for this to work for you. Tomorrow may

be a huge success or it could be the first step of the ladder.

Either way, tomorrow will be better than today. BTW - Clarity is

one thing I can promise you...it's much better than with the hearing

aid.

Alice

>

> Many thanks for your wishes. Just one more day. Now after

reading all of

> the posts about people not hearing or understanding after their

first

> mapping, I'm more nervous! One of my fears is that I will hear

more sounds

> but the clarity would be terrible! Sam>

[Guest guest]

Sam,

The first map is not usually good at all. I had a second map the

day after the first. With the second mapping I was so excited to

hear the clock tic-toc, so you are ahead of me there. When they

turned me on the first day, and I didn't hear much, I just

remembered that I read somewhere that almost all people who are

implanted will like it better than their HA within a month and so I

just enjoyed any sound that I did hear. I was able to understand

some words, but it might have been more lip reading than hearing.

more mappings and time for your brain to get use to the new way of

hearing will make a big difference.

Keep us updated.

May

> Hi Alice and all,

>

> Well, today was my hook up day. As I feared, all I've gotten so

far is a

> bunch of static and beeps. My first thought was " I gave up my

residual

> hearing for this? " . The audie warned me it would be this way for

the first

> couple of weeks. I had hope to have some speech discrimination

but not at

> all. My audie wanted me to try going without my HA for a while

but I told

> him no as I depend on my hearing at work. So we agreed that I

will take the

> HA off after work and try just the CI. So far I'm tolerating the

noise.

> The first sounds I've recognized so far are the clicking of the

keyboard. I

> ve heard the chiming of the grandfather clock and the running of

the water

> in the sink which don't sound like what I'm used to hearing. Just

now I've

> started hearing the clicking of the grandfather clock. So I'm

trying to be

> patient while things get better. I'll go back next week for

another mapping

> Will keep you posted as time goes on.

>

> Regards,

> Sam

>

> N24C: 10/06/2004

> BWP: 11/11/2004

>

>

[Guest guest]

> Hi Alice and all,

>

> Well, today was my hook up day. As I feared, all I've gotten so

far is a

> bunch of static and beeps. My first thought was " I gave up my

residual

> hearing for this? " . The audie warned me it would be this way for

the first

> couple of weeks. I had hope to have some speech discrimination but

not at

> all. My audie wanted me to try going without my HA for a while but

I told

> him no as I depend on my hearing at work. So we agreed that I will

take the

> HA off after work and try just the CI. So far I'm tolerating the

noise.

> The first sounds I've recognized so far are the clicking of the

keyboard. I

> ve heard the chiming of the grandfather clock and the running of

the water

> in the sink which don't sound like what I'm used to hearing. Just

now I've

> started hearing the clicking of the grandfather clock. So I'm

trying to be

> patient while things get better. I'll go back next week for

another mapping

> Will keep you posted as time goes on.

>

> Regards,

> Sam

>

> N24C: 10/06/2004

> BWP: 11/11/2004

>

>

[Guest guest]

Sam......this is a second reply to your message. For some reason my

first reply didn't take and you got a blank email!

Okay....your first mapping was very normal and very similar to my

original mapping. You're gettting all the strange noises because of

the narrow range you're trying to hear sounds with, i.e. your C and

T levels are very close to being the same and doesn't allow the

sounds the full range they need. Consequently you're living in Star

Wars much like the robot, R2D2! Your next mapping will widen the

range as your brain adapts to the increased loudness and stimulation

of the hearing nerve that you've been missing for so long. Just let

yourself acknowledge you do hear a sound and may, or may not, be able

to identify it right away. That will come in time.....so relax and

know you CAN hear and that the implant is working. Now is the

beginning of the " uphill " part to relearn those sounds and come into

the hearing world again. Congratulations on your activatiion and I

know you'll soon hear the benefits.

--Gayle

> Hi Alice and all,

>

> Well, today was my hook up day. As I feared, all I've gotten so

far is a

> bunch of static and beeps. My first thought was " I gave up my

residual

> hearing for this? " . The audie warned me it would be this way for

the first

> couple of weeks. I had hope to have some speech discrimination but

not at

> all. My audie wanted me to try going without my HA for a while but

I told

> him no as I depend on my hearing at work. So we agreed that I will

take the

> HA off after work and try just the CI. So far I'm tolerating the

noise.

> The first sounds I've recognized so far are the clicking of the

keyboard. I

> ve heard the chiming of the grandfather clock and the running of

the water

> in the sink which don't sound like what I'm used to hearing. Just

now I've

> started hearing the clicking of the grandfather clock. So I'm

trying to be

> patient while things get better. I'll go back next week for

another mapping

> Will keep you posted as time goes on.

>

> Regards,

> Sam

>

> N24C: 10/06/2004

> BWP: 11/11/2004

>

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