Things to Hear

Well a little over a week has passed and things are still going great.

Over the past few days I have been able to hear a person tapping a pencil on the table in my graduate class. I was able to understand the professor when he was talking with his back turned to me.

My favorite has been the sound of the snow squishing under my feet, or the sound the snow makes when you compact it into a snow ball. The sound of the ice cracking as you open the frozen car door.

All of the sounds are great to hear and I continue to look forward to every day and the new sounds that day will bring. I am becoming even more excited about counting down the days until my surgery. A couple more months and I will hopefully be bilateral!!!

Random update

So over the past weekend I was doing some housework and I realized things that made sound...it was interesting and exciting.

I was mixing up the water and soap to mop the kitchen when all the sudden I heard this noise....I could not figure out for the life of me what it was. I was probably hilarious to watch as I roamed around the kitchen trying to find the sound. Well I found it....It was the popping of the bubbles in my mop water. I did not even know that bubbles made a sound. I loved it....I just put my head over the bucket and listened for a few minutes.

I was boiling water the other day to make tea, and I was in the other room. Once again I heard something that I couldn't identify. Well this one was easier to figure out. I heard the water boiling in the kitchen.

When I was in Chapel Hill for my mapping I heard one thing that I never thought I would hear. I was looking forward to spring just to hear this....birds. Where I live it is too cold and the birds are long gone for the winter. In Chapel Hill I was walking to the car and I heard the birds singing. It was gorgeous. I just stopped and stood there listening to the music of the birds....there is nothing better at this point.

That's all for now.

CI One Month Update

Well it has been sometime since I updated. Everything is going great. I went back to Chapel Hill for my first mapping and testing since activation. My mapping session went great and things are sounding better.

When they put me in the booth to do my testing...the audiologists were surprised with my overall results.

HINT
6% Pre-implant
100% 1 month post activation

CNC
0% Pre-implant
62% 1 month post activation

They also administered the HINT in noise and I scored 82%.

So overall to have only been activated for one month, I would say that I am doing awesome with the CI. So much that my surgeon agreed to go ahead and implant my left ear.

My bilateral surgery date is scheduled for April 7, 2009. We are now waiting for insurance approval.