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Thursday, August 21, 2014 ( 11:41 PM ) Jessica The cochlear implant was turned on yesterday... it went well. I wasn't expecting a "rock star" activation, I figured it would be beeps..and it was. At first there was a delay between the mouth movements and the beeps but didn't last too long. We also had the equipment orientation... Most of the sounds I hear are interpreted as beeps but they actually made lipreading easier. There is a pattern to the beeps that i somehow interpret into spoken words and sentences ... I was able to understand a couple of people with accents (my son told me they have accents) without asking for help with what they were saying. We went to the mall after lunch after activation, so I got to speak to a few people... A few things sound like they are supposed to, like paper rattling (from my son's paper shopping bag), and some voices are starting to sound like voices... and... shocker of the year: music! I was almost afraid to listen to music this soon and I decided to go ahead and try it so I would have it as a gauge for later. I picked up my pennywhistles and played a few scales. I like the lowest b-flat whistle the best..then I got brave and turned on spotify and the music sounded okay... not perfect, but it doesn't sound horrible like others have said it would at first. It's better today than yesterday. Maybe to someone else, what I'm hearing would sound horrible, but I was expecting it to sound horrible and I don't think it does. I know it will sound better later. I have one of my Spotify play lists going now. Spotify is a website that has LOTS of music and I set up several play lists with different songs/types of songs/artists, etc.. I have a "CI practice" list... songs I'm pretty familiar with. What I think is happening here is I recognize enough to put together what I already know. Earlier today, I tried out a practice listening site and got about half right. It was a list of multiple choice sentences... i was able to pick out some by the number of syllables/sentence pattern... I figure that between now and my Audio/Verbal session, I'll just play around with and pay attention to what I'm listening to and let the specialist tell me what exercises to practice on. I also want to practice speech because my voice feels weird to me... since surgery... need to email the surgeon's nurse about that...I wonder if I'm experiencing something that's a side effect from the surgery. My throat feels thick or something when I talk. Also, when it was quiet, I heard something that sounded like music and was looking through my tabs to see where it was coming from and Gary told me it was the train... (about 1 to 2 blocks away)... later I heard it and verified it with my son... When Indy shakes it sounds like pennies in a can. One funny thing: my kids all figured out how to talk to me without using their voice. I don't know when ir why they developed this but it made for some interesting times in public... looked like I was having half a conversation. This kind of thing caused sibling fights because they didn't know someone was already speaking to me. Oops. Now that I can hear, I caught my son doing that several times yesterday... It's just fascinating... the different sounds and learning about the equipment, etc... I want to hear all the things and talk to all the people! My oldest son came in from out of town as well and it was great seeing him. Labels: advanced bionics, cochlear implant, cyborg #
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