Waiting time for activation - worst time ever
I was aware that I could lose my hearing with the surgery and I’ve lost it. The loss however burdened me far more than I feared. Because that suddenly made it clear to me how much I had compensated for my poor eyesight with hearing even though I am extremely hearing impaired. I immediately found sources of noise through spatial listening. Now I have to search for several seconds from where someone is talking to me. This is very depressing because I don’t understand anything for a long time. Furthermore understanding collapses dramatically when more than 2 people speak at the same time. This was not the case with 2 hearing aids. This realization hit me hard because I didn’t know it beforehand or because it wasn’t cosciously enough to me.
But from day to day I was able to come to terms with it more and more. However a meeting with several people is still impossible. Constant reading is exhausting in the long run if you see poorly anyway. Listening to audio books with one ear was too risky for me to overload it. Music with one ear is only half the pleasure. So only my job remains in my profession. In my job it is not a problem that I had the operation. So it was no problem to work again just 1 week after surgery.
Nevertheless the announced 4-6 weeks until activation are long! After almost 3 weeks of waiting I surprisingly received an early appointment the next day. A personal contact helped me, for which I am very grateful. Because that was my salvation. Every day that I didn’t have an initial adjustment my headache got worse. The reason is that my jaw muscles were unconsciously very tense and I always had to relax them consciously.