A Girl and Her Dog

Lilyrayne · Oct 18, 2005

Yup!

shaggie · Oct 18, 2005

Bree said:

I only had hearing til age 4. That's when it started declining. I wore two hearing aids from that point on to age 11, when I lost most of what I had left. So I honestly don't remember much of actual hearing, only what I heard with hearing aids, which wasn't that good. The doctors didn't think I'd do that well with the implants due to hardly hearing anything for 12 years by the time I got them, but I suprised them all and did better than they thought I would. The only way I know the implant is better than the hearing aid is because I got implanted one at a time, in my deadest ear first, so that for a time I had the implant in one ear and the hearing aid in the other, so I could compared. I had originally intended to leave it this way but once I heard how muffled and bad the quality was in the hearing aid vs. the implant, I decided to implant that ear too.

As for fine-tuning, that occurs every 3 to 6 months and eventually every year or as needed for the rest of your life. It's not a one-shot deal, as your brain adjusts to the implants signals and all, things change, and the implants have to be re-programmed to work with the changes. All that really involves is sitting hooked up to a computer and providing feed back to the audiologists. I call it going to my "docking station for a tune-up" (Think Star Trek, I'm a cyborg!)
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Interesting. Thanks for the feedback.

I've heard of a few people who had hearing, older than age 4, who knew very well all the nuances of hearing and lost their hearing due to disease. One lady who had the cochlear implant said she could recognize a Stevie Wonder song that they played to her. It sounded garbled, but she knew the song from when she had good hearing.

Might I ask what the cause of your hearing loss was? Thanks.

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the_dude · Oct 19, 2005

you look sweet!

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