Last week, during my visit to Roberta, my audiologist, she decided to run a short hearing test to see how much sound my ears can pick up at this point in time, one month after activation. A few minutes in the booth listening to tones emitted from a speaker, and then we were back in her office and she showed me the results.
See for yourself:
What a fantabulous couple of weeks it has been with my “new ears”! No, it’s not perfect, but I’m aware it never will be. However, I already hear noticeably better than before the surgery, so even if improvement stopped right now, I’d consider the cochlear implants a success!
But I’m assured that there will be a lot more improvement so it’s definitely All Good™!
Today, my cochlear implants were activated.
It has been the most amazing day!
Today I returned to work, 11 days after my cochlear implant surgery. I had expected to go back sooner, but I can’t say I’m sorry I had that extra couple of days off (longer, including the weekend) than planned.
It was a little bit challenging and frustrating, as expected.
Before the cochlear implant surgery, out of all the things I was mildly apprehensive about, probably the stand-out concern was how I’d manage in the two weeks after the surgery, but before switch-on. I knew that in this time I would have no hearing at all.
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