I´ve been losing hearing from age 17 due a progressive bilateral hearing
loss. Nowadays I’m deaf. At that moment I could
no longer understand movies without captioning and had to start relying on lip
reading to communicate with people on a daily basis. It took a long time for me
to finally accept my hearing loss. Besides my deafness I had other
symptoms like, dizziness, headaches, disorientation, and my ears were ringing
all the time. The diagnostic for my illness is called tinnitus.
I was feeling very sick.
For me this whole thing of being deaf wasn’t easy to deal with, because
I was losing one of my senses and this make me feel so bad.
I was implanted and activated 2 years ago and my hearing experience has
been amazing!! I really started hearing again 6 months after the activation.
The first sound processor that I had was Freedom; thanks to it that communicational barrier stop existing
and I had the chance to re-learn the sounds like my dog barking, the doorbell
and even my own voice which I didn’t like at the time because it sounds funny
like the chipmunk from the movie.
Then I learned about the N5 sound processor. It’s the smaller in the
industry, improves your hearing in noisy environments, it’s water resistant and
it has a remote control that lets you know graphically any failure in the S.P.,
you can switch to telecoil and programs established. The sound quality it’s
unbelievable everything sounds so clear and Sharp it makes me feel like a
hearing person again. In fact, The N5 s.p. allowed me to recognize sounds that
I took for granted before I loss hearing like: the sound of the wind, the sound
of a kiss, the sound of my own steps, my voice sounds nice it doesn’t bother me
know.
I know that for some people or hearing people may think it’s silly but I
have a dream and that is to listen the sea again and the sound of waves
breaking on the shore. It will be very rewarding for me because brings me so
many beautiful memories of my childhood, when my father used to take my brother
and I to the beach to enjoy those sounds and relax. I’ll tell you my experience
with this in an upcoming video.
I can tell you that I’m very happy with my C.I. is the best decision I
ever made, thanks to my C.I. I feel confidence with myself again.
