Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toAdvanced Bionics Listening Room Hearing Advanced Bionics Listening Room March 20, 2009 This looks like a really great set of listening activities – http://www.hearingjourney.com/Listening_Room/Teens_and_Adults/Listening_Gym/index.cfm?langid=1 I like the idea of being able to call a number and listen to a recording to practice using the phone. I’m glad that the professional engineering exam that I am taking will be completely done before my surgery. I have enough distractions […] Number of comments: 0
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toMusic and Low Frequency Hearing Hearing Music Music and Low Frequency Hearing March 4, 2009 It was only a few weeks ago that my boss at work asked me what frequency an octave is. We were planning to do an acoustical test for some fire insulation and it came up in the discussion. He figured as a musician I would know. Never having studied acoustics, I didn’t, but Google did […] Number of comments: 8
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toFirst trip to UNC Hearing First trip to UNC March 2, 2009 The drive down yesterday, Sunday 3/1, was awful! There was a severe snow storm for the 60 miles between Lynchburg and Danville, VA and we were crawling along at 25 mph seeing cars slid off the road into the ditch every half mile. I looked at the radar map as we were heading into the […] Number of comments: 0
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toListening skills Hearing Listening skills February 28, 2009 I’ve been reading a lot of new blogs lately, a lot of them written by other people about their cochlear implant experiences. I love random web surfing so I don’t remember how I found most things. When I end up with a couple dozen tabs open in Firefox I try to add blogs to Google […] Number of comments: 1
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toWhat changed my mind about getting a CI Hearing What changed my mind about getting a CI February 24, 2009 I wanted to document my reasons for not pursuing a cochlear implant before now and that was the point of my other post last week. Now I want to write about what finally changed my mind. I heard about the hybrid CIs and that they were in FDA trials. I sent an email to the […] Number of comments: 8
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toWhy Not to get a cochlear implant Hearing Why Not to get a cochlear implant February 20, 2009 I’ve started this post twice now and it has morphed into something else… Let’s try again. There are lots of reasons to get a cochlear implant. There are also many people who will be happy to go on and on about the reasons not to get one, or more specifically why you shouldn’t get one […] Number of comments: 5
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toMy first CI evaluation Hearing My first CI evaluation February 18, 2009 It has been over 15 years since I lost my hearing. In 1993 I was told that a CI would not help me. That they didn’t produce very good sound and that speech comprehension with one was lower than I was getting with my hearing aids. I wasn’t that deaf. Honestly, I didn’t really think […] Number of comments: 7
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toMy hearing (hi)story… About Me My hearing (hi)story… February 16, 2009 Until I was 14 I had perfectly normal hearing. That October, it was 1993, I had a minor cold (really more like “sick of school”) and that led to a stuffy feeling and a very loud ringing in my ears. I went back to school after the weekend and things sounded very odd… a stuffy, […] Number of comments: 1
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toCochlear implant excitement Hearing Cochlear implant excitement February 13, 2009 I don’t know where to start writing about my cochlear implant journey, so I’ll just start writing and fill in the background as I feel like it. Luckily there isn’t much background yet because I’m just getting started. Wednesday I received a big package in the mail from UNC. It had a map of the […] Number of comments: 6
