PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
I’ve started this thread with the hope that all recipients will introduce themselves. Over the last 12 months we have had an influx of recipients on the board. I believe a few more in the pipeline also. I’m doing this so that all future recipients or people considering a CI have somewhere they can find a name of an experienced person they can message… To ask the many questions we all had when we went through the pre op stage. All without the negativity that’s been going on over the last few months from other people on the board.
I’m Sheryl, aka Deaf_piper I live in Melbourne Australia. I was implanted July 8 2019, 8.5 months ago. I have a Cochlea N7 & Resound Enzo bimodal system. I have a 522 array with a hybrid EAS attachment, because I was lucky and had most of my residual saved during the operation.The EAS stands for electric acoustic stimulation so technically it’s the merging of both methods. The highs are via electric and the lows via acoustic. It’s meant to give me a fuller, richer sounding speech. But it’s questionable!
I just wish I had done this years ago!