Big day today! I have an appointment at Sunnybrook for 13:00. I was a bit anxious about this as there has been a lot of snow and many schools and colleges have cancelled classes. However, the TTC appeared to be running quite well except for certain buses and streetcars.
So off we went at about 1l o'clock expecting to get there with an hour to spare. In the end, with various delays, we only had about 30 minutes to spare. This was still enough time to eat a bit of lunch in the Sunnybrook cafeteria. The hospital was surprisingly busy given the weather.
It turned out that my regular audiologist was unable to attend so we met with another audiologist instead. After a brief chat about how the surgery went and whether I'd had any pain or side effects, she reviewed the processor and its accessories ... and went about programming the processor ready for activation.
After attaching the processor to my left ear and the headpiece to, well, my head she began to send 'sounds' to it. At first, I could hear nothing but after a bit I perceived some buzzing and then a sensation of sounds. Difficult to describe but it really is rather strange at first!
Within a few minutes, she had all 16 electrodes tested and working. She then determined what was a comfortable volume for each electrode ... or, at least, group of electrodes and I don't think we tested all 16.
Both the audiologist and Barb sound very strange - more R2D2 or Dalek than anything. But the general shape of words are there, especially the higher-pitched consonants such as 's' and 't'. I haven't heard those in my left ear for many years!
