since end of november, there have been some things going wrong directions, ESPECIALLY speech comprehension.
each time I went there for programming, speech started to get harder to understand.
nobody understood WHY.
meanwhile I kept going with other things, as I have posted here, but the fact that speech got worse has worn me thin last ten days.
my brain almost started to smoke when I tried to solve the mystery but I finally got some strong clues.
yesterday, I had another appointment and took my log with me to the audiologist to read.
I told him I could hear bass tones and male voices well, and VERY high frequencies like birds, but that a lot of things sounded garbled and that got worse every day.
that I thought I needed more of the middle tones stuff instead of more highs.
when I was tested, this indeed showed up and he adjusted the programme, something he told me he was normally not eager and even wary to do.
so if I would have proved to be WRONG, I would have had to go home with nothing new.
I felt SO lucky that this showed up and so the frequencies between 300 and 2000 hertz were adjusted, with a peak in the middle of that.
now I am not going to say this solved EVERYTHING because it did not.
what instantly noticed is that speech got clearer.
my theory so far, that I could indeed end up with ONE program to use for EVERYTHING, still stands, as these are exactly the frequencies too where our music is played
but that, I did not tell them....the focus is on speech now.
another thing I have suggested is go BACK to the programme of the beginning, which has 16 channels instead of 120 (virtual) ones (the implant itself has ONLY 16, you see.)
this was also tried out and it was almost shocking that the 16 channel sounded much better for speech instantly.
happily I got back home, and on my trip noticed I could understand some words again on the audiobook already, something I have not been able to do last week anymore. there was NO speech understanding left....
in the evening also practicing with speech, was going MUCH better, and even picked up some words again from tv, something I have been able to do on day 2 already but NOT with the 120 channel program.
the downside of this is that I forgot to ask them to KEEP a 120 channel program for music, as for that you need to have at least 100 channels to make something out of it.......so next two weeks I will have to "make do" with what I have got now.
I don't worry anymore at all, it is going to be ALLRIGHT.
I just listened to THIS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoTL162Sd44
with tears in my eyes.........
in the past I only could LISTEN to music but never EXPERIENCE/ FEEL it.
despite noticing where I need more adjusting in the programme, it sounded good enough to make me cry ........and feel very very thankful for the audie who had so much patience with me yesterday.
now both male AND female voices sound better, and if I am right, I don't need more extreme programming anymore from now on.
the volume is just fine, just need some bits here and there and then.......
world, watch out!!
blessings to you all.
berti
!!!!)
