Update on how things are going so far!

Hello family and friends,

Thanks for continuing to check in with me, I greatly appreciate it! I continue to appreciate hearing with both ears. My left ear still sounds low and like a man. If I only have the left ear on, people sound like Darth Vader and it's kinda creepy. I am looking forward to August 23rd when I go back to Mayo for another mapping. I feel like I need to have some frequencies adjusted more on both of my ears. I am still getting used to the new speech processors as well. I know it is much better than my old one, but I just need to have patience to make adjustments and practice listening with the new adjustments. I wish sometimes I could have the computer decide what would work best for me, but it doesn't work that way, everyone is different with how they hear sounds.

I recently visited my parents in Minocqua. I was able to explore the four programs on my speech processors in different environments. My dad noticed that when I was not in the noise program, my voice was much louder. If I switched to a noise program, my voice sounded normal. When doing my morning walks with my dad along busy streets, I noticed the traffic was very loud!

I feel the adjustments I made on my right ear (first implanted ear) sounds different from my old one and it does not seem like it adjusted right because I feel like I am missing more information than when I was using my old processor. I think that will be the new challenge, when I go in for new mappings;  I will be doing it for both of my ears, so that means I need to learn to adjust to new settings on both sides. This can be tiring. I am grateful, the school year has not started yet, so I can have extra time to train my brain.

Overall, I am still happy that I had the second implant surgery. It is amazing that I can understand people when they are sitting on my left even though it might sound lower. It is a process and it will get better with time.

Thanks for reading! I am still struggling to upload my video, hopefully I will figure this out soon!