Dec

This morning, I’m sitting at the computer desk writing out my list of things to do and talking with my friend.  All of sudden, I could hear this very very loud beeping and I looked at the time then realized it was Aiden & Duncan’s alarm clock going off!!  The door was even closed!  That’s too cool!! LOL!

Dec

WOW, it doesn’t feel like it’s 6 days before the surgery!  My nerves hasn’t kicked in, but I’m sure I’ll be regretting saying that soon! LOL!  Yesterday, I had my pre-op appointment.  When we got to the hospital, the parking garage was just about full!  We had to go to the very top and park in the very last section!  We have NEVER seen it that full ever since we started going to Barnes in May!  So we were taken back at the sight of it!  I’d say there were around 20 spots left!  It was SO FULL!

Anyway - everything’s ready to go and will have an interpreter on the day of the surgery.  Right now I’m dealing with sinus but I am on the end of it so I will be okay.    I am definitely wishing that my mom could be here!  I know she can’t make it due to work.  There is not much to report relating to the CI as it’s just been really cold and I’m dealing with electrical dishcarges. It is SOO annoying.  I used to get them little bit, but this year it’s so bad that I’m constantly shocking people! It’s horrible! Everytime I need to adjust my CI, I would have to scramble and look for a metal piece and touch it so I could transfer the discharge before adjusting the BTE CI. It’s SO FREAKING annoying! It just seem this year is the worst one of all!  I even told a friend of mine that if it doesn’t lighten up and that I was going to have to start carrying a bounce dryer sheet! LOL!! That should tell you HOW bad it is!!

I’ve been getting everything ready around the house. All I have left to do is the christmas shopping then I’d be ready for the surgery!!

You may not see anymore post from me until the surgery as we’ll be doing christmas shopping and celebrating oldest son’s birthday on Sunday.  So until then! I will have Jeff, hubby  to take some pictures on Wednesday!

Until then………..

Nov

I had my final appointment for my right side cochlear implant. I had the 3 month evaluation done also along with tones test, hearing test and words test. Overall, I’m doing pretty good.  She said it is about the same;  just little improvement, I think that’s what she said.  I wasn’t exactly paying very good attention as I didn’t get much sleep the night before.  We did have to up the software though. Things had started to get “soft” for me about a week ago and I noticed that one morning. Originally I thought it was my battery, but it wasn’t. So I had Brenda up it a little bit to hold me down until the activation day on the left side! TWO WEEKS from today! WOW!!

Soo I won’t be going back until the 30th of December for my left side to be activated. My surgery is the 10th of December.

Anyway, I DO still have my residual hearing!! SO that’s pretty good!! Here are the results.
The first box is the normal hearing test — X is the left side an the O is the right side.  The second box is what I am hearing with my CI

Nov

I have 2 sets of hearing aids that I still have. One is probably from 12 years ago, but still works great. The last set I got is from about 7 years ago? I’m trying to figure out what to do as I don’t need them anymore and wouldn’t be wearing them anyway.

Does anyone have suggestions or ideas what I can do with them. There has to be an agency or an organization that I could donate it to?

Have a great day!

Nov

Last night, I was laying on the couch with Jeff watching “The Unit”. I commented to Jeff that I could actually understand the words on tv while reading and listening. It is more clearer and I’m picking on those quicker. We were discussing about that we’re happy that I went ahead and got the CI. I don’t regret it one bit. I’m actually looking forward to the 2nd one, except that I’m little nervous about it because I know it would be more louder. LOL! I haven’t worn my left hearing aid, oh boy.. probably 2 months? I know I worn it the first month after I had the CI then eventually just stopped. It just felt really weird to have one CI and one HA.

Is there any other person that did the same thing?

Nov

I finally fixed the blogrolls on my sidebar. You’re welcome to add mine to your blogrolls list. The only thing I ask is that please leave me a comment so I can add yours to my blogrolls so we can share the wealth of information about cochlear implants and meet other people so we can unite together!

It does not matter what brand of CI you have to me, just long we can chat about our lives with the CI and how much it has changed ours!

Nov

I recently changed web host package with a different company. However, I have noticed that my RSS feed have stopped. People are telling me that I haven’t updated in 2 weeks. Really, I have been updating the last two weeks. There’s been 5 more posts after the changes, but they’re not showing up anywhere. I don’t know what to do about this issue, except to tell you to un-subscribe, then re-subscribe. I know it is pain in the rear, but you can see that there are more posts. Sorry about that to my fellow bloggers and readers!

If anyone has suggestion for me how to correct this on my end, please leave a comment and let me know what I can do to fix this!

Thanks!

Nov

I had stopped by a friend’s house Thursday afternoon to drop something off.  We were standing outside and talking for a few minutes.   All of sudden, I could hear something, but I wasn’t familar with it so I was looking around trying to locate the sound.  My friend then said, it’s the train. I was like that was the train?? She said yeah, it is. I was like wow.. I heard it t 2 more times after that. It was really neat!  The ironic thing is that a friend of mine from high school had asked me a couple of weeks ago if I had been able to hear the train yet.  I had told him no that I hadn’t.  NOW I can tell him, I did!   Now, I can’t recall exactly what he said, but he did say something about to listen for it.

**Edited to update**

Hi Christy, To answer your question…  Actually, this is probably around 1/4 miles from the railroad to my friend’s house.  I’ve never felt the rumbles because I’m too far from it.  My first thought was what is that noise!?  It wasn’t loud as it would be if I was closer. it was just kind of annoying that I couldn’t figure what it was.  I try to figure the sound out before I ask.  I usually get maybe 1/4 right of the time to what I’m hearing.  I usually ask Jeff “is that what is making the noise?” or “was that what I heard?” stuff like that.  Now, the railroad is about literally 2 blocks from my house, and I had never heard it here at home. So I’m not sure if the house structure is keeping me from hearing outside noises.  I can hear the dogs barking faintly when they’re outside, ONLY if I’m in the middle of the house.  it’s odd.  So I’ll have to ask jeff that when he wakes up.

And YES i’m getting excited about getting the 2nd CI.  It’s less a month away! I’ve been getting things ready around here. I know it’s still early but I needed time to get everything done as I can’t do everything in 2 or 3 days before the surgery otherwise I’ll throw my back out.  I have herinated disc on L-3, L-4 and L-5. So everything had to be spreaded out over couple of days so I don’t throw it out. It SUCKS!   Now that I’m almost done with everything. i just have about six projects left that needs to be done then I can stay on the top of the house till then.  One of them is Christmas shopping and Birthday shopping (Connor’s).  In a way I’m glad the surgery isn’t the 14th of November, as they were going to attempt.  The 10th of December works out better for Jeff and me. WHEW, but I was going to take it any way I can!

Sorry this is a long winded reply to your comment.

Nov

Last night, I went with a good friend of mine to a meeting in STL.  On the way home, we were talking about something and her cellphone rang. She answered it so I went on my blackberry to check emails and texts.  I had heard her saying “What?” then “I’ll see you in a bit” while reading my blackberry.  I asked if that’s what she said. She said YEAH!  So she really got to see/hear it firsthand! Her expression was in awe.  So we ended talking quite alot about the CI stuff and how amazing it is.

Nov

Today I had my appointment with Brenda. There were several things that we needed to go over which were such as appointments needs being changed due to the 2nd surgery dates, homework, some issues and checking the programming.

• Appointments: We ended up canceling the 2nd of December’s appointment due to the pre-op appointment on the 3rd. My surgery is scheduled for the 10th of December and the post-op is the 18th of December. So we went ahead and scheduled the activation dates for the 2nd CI. They’re December 30th and January 2nd! WHOO!!
• Homework: Since my last appointment is the 25th of November and I wouldn’t be seeing her again until the 30th of December so she’s gonna give me enough to hold me down until then so I can still have “therapies” at home with Jeff.
• Mapping: We ended up doing some small adjustment on the software and updated the primary and the backup CI. So I’m all set until then!

Overall, next week I THINK she said we would be going over the core information and get that all out of the way then the 25th will be my 3 month evaluation. Brenda did say she’s looking forward to see how I did, so am I!

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