I am now in Stereo and not sure what to think!!
My right ear (first implant) is feeling out of touch. As I mentioned earlier it’s been five weeks of not hearing with it. It needs to be re-trained again and I had the feeling that would happen.
The quality of sounds and voices is not quite up to par but it will improve with time, I hope.
So my day was long with almost two hours of testing. Before we started the testing Suzanne brought out my first aid and had me wear it for about 10 mins to get my brain adjusted to it. She warned me to turn down the volume and even when it was low, it was loud. While I waited during the 10 mins I wandered off into the “mall” area of Sunnybrook where there is lots of noise, people and a waterfall. Plus I ordered me a much needed coffee to test my hearing ability with other people.
The test was basically – repeat sentences without noise in background, with noise in background and repeat words without noise and that was done three times. Both right and left aid together, left only and right only.
Results were interesting – I did better with my left aid (second implant) and my score dropped with my right aid (first implant). What this means – yes it was a good idea to take away my first implant and allow me to learn with the second implant alone. But this also proved that if you don’t wear your implant all the time you will lose the full benefit of hearing.
Added note: on my way home, Chris had the radio on and I was able to hear where the sound was coming from – left side and then the right. So that’s Stereo?? J
