The Result!

well i finally got hearing test and she said if i can do it with hearing aid on and if it get too uncomfortable we can stop so i went ahead to do the test and first was word test with no lipreading i didn't get any correct lol and then next was sentence she stopped halfway said 'forget it, you're not getting any diddly squat so let do one with lipreading" haha so we did it and i actually scored 42% with that one with sentence but we didn't do one with word think she forgot but thats ok. Then we talk more about the sensations I'm getting from hearing aid and blah blah then finally she said 'well how does feb 12th, tuesday sounds?' first thing came to my head was "wait, what? whoa sound like I AM candidate.... YES! WHOO" lol and said 'oh yes sounds good, 9 am?" then that was it Im so excited that i am candidate finally! Yay! so next time i'll update is for my pre-op appointment thats in january 9th so watch for it :-)

Audiologist Said

Well I emailed my audiologist to ask few question mainly about my issue with hearing aid and she told me this " Stop using it......I am guessing that you get no benefit from a hearing aid and we will try to test you without using one at all. I will also relay this medical concern to Dr. T (my surgeon)" and I asked if she's sure about it since I thought hearing test with best aided condition is required for insurance to pay and stuff and she said " If there is no noted benefit from hearing aids, the test is still valid. WE just needed to try...and you tried. I don't want you to be uncomfortable, so stop using it as you have tried long enough." So look like trying out hearing aid is more important than hearing test on best aided condition and if surgeon agree with her then I don't know what that mean maybe mean I'm candidate??? Eek I'm getting nervous hope I am. Lol one more week till my appointment with her and don't know if still need do test with ha if surgeon still want to or do test without ha, we'll see.

loaner's hearing aid

its day 4 and I am starting to suspect that i have severe recruitment because as soon as i take my hearing aid off I get this horrible loud tinnitus in my right ear (its the ear i wear hearing aid on) and it imitate the sound i heard right before i turned off the hearing aid and it wont stop and sometimes it'll change sound like pulsating sound and also if i look at someone touch paper my brain makes up noise and makes paper rustling noise i know i didnt hear it cuz that someone didnt even rustle up the paper, stupid brain haha an if man talking it sound like bad stratchy rough voice for man and loud high pitched morse code for women its horrible i hated my hearing aid and to top it all my ear is in pain, it have blister in the inside of ear not ear canal the other part of ear and my ear drum feel like its bruised or something from hearing aid blast the sound oh man i took a break from it for half of the day and whole night hope my ear heal up little bit. I want to guess my speech discrimination for my hearing test whenever it comes (she said tuesday of november 27th but we'll see) i would say 15% now with hearing aid and no lip-reading and with lipreading hmm maybe 35%? Compare to 0% unaided.

My appointment day

Well today was supposed to be the day I get tested for best aided condition and tell me her answer for cochlear implant candidate and finalized the process and go ahead with surgery BUT once she put Oticon Sumo DM on me and *groan* I didn't like way it feel, it feel like hearing aid blow so much pressure in my ear and brain and my right eye keep umm... hard to describe, like moved, disorted for second (only right ear have hearing aid) and makes me dizzy for 1 sec every spoken word lol and after while my eardrum start to get sore and after all day I get used to it TINY bit but still suck. So she decided to postpone and want me wear it for 2 weeks then tested me on best aided condition to get best result to me adjusted to hearing aid. So it sucks cuz I want my answer already heh. That's all up with my appt today

and 5 hours later i heard word "that lawyer" so crystal clear it surprised me from tv i wasnt pay attention to it till i heard it and went 'whoa i heard that" lol crazy. but other word still sound garbled and woman voice if talk too fast for me sound like da da da da da da da its so annoying lol