These are good training resources and I will look into them. All I am doing right now (1 week after activation) is Hearos, which is actually quite challenging. It has 3 settings for each drill in each of 5 modules. One is quiet, then city background and then cafe background. You can’t move up until you have mastered each level of background noise. The drills are words, sounds and letter groups. Not easy.
To @Raudrive’s question, my next audio appt is 3/19. A little longer than I woudl have expected give my activation was in January.
I am putting in ~ 1+ hrs/day as this is even more than Hearos blocks out. I spend the bulk of the day with only my CI active. I leave off my HA and actually I find in a noisy setting I hear better this way. Less background noise.
I have also come to grips with the reality that I have NO residual hearing in the implanted ear. At this point, I assume this is permanent. I was prepared for that, although we did everything I imagined was possible to preserve this. Very interested to find out why this is lost. Feel that the CI suppliers need to keep tabs on how surgeries went and what preserves residual hearing, not just assume things.
I also think there hasn’t been enough “what to expect after surgery” information. This avoids feeling that a new effect is negative, vs normal and an explanation of why you experience these is needed. Ear numbness, hearting my pulse, loud ear popping, metallic sounds with ear popping or hitting the ear, need to be explained as normal aftereffects if that’s the case.