Comparing hearing aid days to CI days

• Nothing painfully loud
• Less fatigue
• No more daily, chronic headaches
• Can hear frequency sounds could not hear at all, even w/ state-of-the-art digital aids
• Can hear music
• Can hear in the dark
• Can hear w/o seeing
• Can hear on the phone
• No squeal-y feedback or itchy ear molds
• No “clogged” hearing after airplane flights
  

CI voice sounds for the first two weeks

• Kazoo sounding
• Buzzy background sound like an oboe or bagpipe (using CIS)
• Barrel-y, muffled
• Like PA system – hollow, megaphoned
• Darth Vader with a slur
• Boink-y, like talking under water (using SAS)
• Monotone voices
• Male and females sounding alike
• Reverberating
• Non-human

Wonderful Sounds from Day One

• Birds chirping
• Sniffing
• Spoon in soup bowl
• Rattle of ice in glass
• Oven timer
• Wine glass ‘ping’
• Rustling leaves
• Rain on car roof
• Clock ticking
• Gerry's whistling
• Sighing and wind chimes on TV
• Computer key clicks
• Dog’s nails o tile floor
• High notes of music box
• Dial key tones on cell phone
• Shopping carts at Costco like loud running water
• ATM machine beeps