{"id":119,"date":"2019-11-13T01:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T01:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monster-island.org\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2019-11-14T03:20:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T03:20:19","slug":"almost-3-months-post-activation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monster-island.org\/blog\/2019\/11\/13\/almost-3-months-post-activation\/","title":{"rendered":"(Almost) 3 Months Post-Activation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Had my 3-month mapping today. She also tested my word recognition — this was a man’s voice saying a series of words preceded by “Ready” (e.,g., “Ready – ball”) and I had to repeat the word after “ready”. I got 64% on the words; she also counted how often I got the right sound, even if I didn’t get precisely the right word, and that was 82%. I feel like I do better than 64% in normal conversation, at least in a quiet setting, because I have context; where I have trouble is if someone uses an unfamiliar word or makes a quick subject change when I’m not expecting it. And I’m doing better with men’s voices than women’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also got a Naida Link hearing aid for the other ear about a week ago. The one I was using, one of a pair of Starkey Muse BiCROS (obviously, the other half of the pair was replaced by my CI), was pretty useless and I stopped wearing it. The Link is pretty cool in that it (as its name implies) links to my CI and has similar programs. I have a little trouble understanding people with just the hearing aid, but it does improve my ability to hear in stereo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At today’s appointment, I asked for a streaming-only program — currently, if I use my normal everyday program for Bluetooth streaming, I have problems if there’s a lot of background noise, such as at the gym, because it’s still picking up sound from the processor’s microphones; it’s set to 70% from streaming and 30% from the microphones, so that I can hear if there’s something going on that I need to hear, like a fire alarm or something. But there are times when I just want to hear the streaming — I still have a little bit of hearing in my other ear that would certainly be enough to hear a fire alarm, and plus my husband’s usually with me when I’m likely to use this program, so he’d alert me to anything I needed to know about. The new program can also stream to the hearing aid, so I get the sound in both ears. For situations where I still want to be able to hear external sounds, I can use program 1 for streaming like I have been doing all along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new program also helped an issue I was having with the TV Connector: unless I had the TV’s normal sound muted (impractical unless I’m watching alone), I got this weird echo effect when streaming from the TV to my CI Connect. The processor microphones would be picking up the sound from the TV’s speakers a fraction of a second before I’d get it through the streaming, so I’d hear everything twice, just slightly unsynchronized. Disabling the processor microphones fixed that, so I can now use the TV Connector. (I’d been streaming through the Roger Select instead, which didn’t seem to have that problem for some reason.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are my programs now (not that I have any idea how to interpret this):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In other news, AB sent me a replacement CI Connect after I complained to them about all the problems I had with my original one. This one works much, much better — hasn’t cut out at all, even in the places where the old one did, and I can keep my phone in my pocket and it’ll still work. So it was just defective, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My biggest problem lately has been volume. I got the audiologist to lower it a bit, because small but sudden sounds, like someone coughing, have a tendency to make me jump out of my skin, and things like my coworkers talking one or two offices away have been driving me batty. I can (and do) turn it down, of course, but it only goes down so far. Hopefully this mapping will help there; at least, I didn’t feel the need to close my office door today like I’d been doing the last few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, it’s going reasonably well. Understanding people still takes mental effort, but I’m grateful that I can understand them at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Had my 3-month mapping today. She also tested my word recognition — this was a man’s voice saying a series of words preceded by “Ready” (e.,g., “Ready – ball”) and I had to repeat the word after “ready”. I got 64% on the words; she also counted how often I got the right sound, even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monster-island.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monster-island.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monster-island.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster-island.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster-island.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster-island.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster-island.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monster-island.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster-island.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monster-island.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}