I’m sitting here at work right now, going through photos from this week’s photo shoots. I feel this beeping on the side of my head, on the CI side (I don’t have it on, and I haven’t worn it for about 3 weeks now), and I look up, confused at this noise which I don’t recognize, coming from all the way across the lab.
“Amy,” I say to my coworker sitting next to me, “it sounds like an alarm is going off.”
“Yeah, Kurt’s scanning the control strips.”
“Oh.”
Certainly was odd for me, because I couldn’t hear it in my left ear, even though that’s the only ear I’ve been listening with for the last three weeks, through my hearing aid. Yet, the sound feels like it’s coming in through my right CI ear, resonating on the right side of my head.
An update later on why I haven’t worn my CI for the last three weeks. I should get back and start wearing it, but at this point, I feel like why. Why bother?
The last few months or so, I’ve gotten to the point where I sometimes wonder why I even got the CI in the first place. Catherine told me that one of her other patients called it the post-CI high.
How much different is it to be without the CI then with it?
[...] Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized — Allison @ 9:11 am In my last post, I said that I hadn’t worn my CI for three [...]
it’s very different. and at the same time, not that difference.
the world is quieter, that’s for sure.
and the nuances are gone. i notice my brain is filling in the information for me now.
but since I grew up with it, i’m used to hearing with a hearing aid. having a cochlear implant and wearing it regularly is what is weird to me.