Social phobia, also know as social anxiety, is the third largest psychological problem in the world today… This diagnosis has a higher representation among people with hearing difficulties (and other populations segments), than in the average population. This site offers more information: Read More
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Shy? Investigating social phobia…
August 29th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Posted in Late-Deafened |
Summa summarum
August 18th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
I will in near future speak to a group of people with special interest in CI. This group will consist of both professionals and other fellow cyborgs. In regards to this speech, I was approached by a fellow speaker at the same conference, and she asked about what I would talk about. As I wrote Read More
Posted in Deaf, Late-Deafened |
Clear Voice™ – and more thorough thoughts
July 15th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Shortly after my last blog post I adjusted the Clear Voice™ from a medium setting, to low, following the first two weeks of trying it in the medium setting. I absolutely found the medium setting useful in noisy environments, but could not use it while in a non-polluted environment. It Read More
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More brainwork – 3 important personal discoveries
May 3rd, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
I’m progressing well with my hearing capability, and 4 weeks after my 6 month tune-up, we’ve seen and detected some real progress in my capability to distinguish some really similar sounds. Similarly sounding vowels can be hard to distinguish when accompanied by certain consonants either Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
Insight through peers
April 24th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
A little while ago I received a comment on this blog. Richard Rutherford had something very important to share. I feel compelled to provide his thoughts to you all, in it’s own post. The initial reason for that is because of what he put his finger on: the issue of audism related to self Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Late-Deafened |
Life is getting easier
April 7th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
I feel less commitment to this blog now, and for that I’m sorry. But as things develop in regards to the CI, so does my life. The hearing falls slowly into place, and I can start to concentrate on other more “mundane” (but still very important!) things This is a good thing for me, Read More
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The difference between “recruitment” and tinnitus
March 22nd, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
I just want to be very clear on the difference between these two phenomena. They’re both auditory sensory related, but have some significant differences. Tinnitus is best described as phantom sounds. The sounds are audible to the one affected individual only, and there is no way to measure Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
What happened with the “recruitment”?
March 12th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
I got this question from a reader (Candy): Kim’s post send me here, and I really like your post. What gets me amazed is that I do have that problem some of the time and I never knew there was a word for it! Do you have implants now? and, if so, does it helps get rid of Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid, Late-Deafened, Music |
Tinnitus stress management and other things CI
March 9th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Spring is right around the corner and the sun is shining upon us again This winter has been put to very good use by yours truly. I’ve learned to hear again! I consolidated with my fabulous girlfriend, and we have purchased an apartment together I got a better relationship with my Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
Unrealistic Expectations from the World? Audism?
February 24th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
What do people expect from me? They expect me to participate in social activities and to be part of the “common consciousness”. That is a fair expectation in my opinion. In this blog post I want to take a look at some circumstances and obstacles concerning these expectations. I think it Read More
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Tinnitus management course step 1
February 8th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
As promised, I will write about the tinnitus management course I’m following. First of all, this is not a miracle cure. The tinnitus will not go away. It is a way to provide me with the mental skill to control the tinnitus through relaxation and focusing on mental images in order to suppress Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
Stress, stress management, tinnitus and the road ahead
February 5th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Dedicated to funnyoldlife, who is having her first CI on february 25th! Good luck to you! In the last few months I have been increasingly aware of the impact stress has and HAS HAD on me. In this post I will get into the subject of stress related to my hearing history and to sound-triggered Read More
Posted in Deaf, Late-Deafened |
Skratch – no quantum leap
January 30th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Yeay! I have been impatient and dismayed the last few weeks due to little or no felt progress with the sound, or rather, speech perception capability with my CI. But here’s the thing: It IS improving! Only now the improvement is unnoticeable on a day to day or week to week basis. But I Read More
Posted in Audiology, Auditory/Oral, Cochlear Implant, Deaf, Late-Deafened, Speech |
Sound 5 month post-activation + testing binaurality
January 10th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
I know I aired some frustration in my last post two days ago about not being able to track any progress (sound wise). This lack of detecting progress is partly my own fault, I haven’t been up to speed about my listening-training. To my defense I have to say I’ve been swamped in everyday life Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid, Late-Deafened, Music |
Bad “hear” days and other things
January 8th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Happy New year everyone! I am a bit frustrated these days, and that frustration has several sources. I feel a bit stagnated and stuck, I can’t track any sound improvement. On the contrary I feel like sliding backwards every time I’m a bit tired. It is like this: when I’m tired, my brain Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
My first bionic Christmas, anno 2009
December 23rd, 2009 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Christmas is creeping up on us again This year it will bring a whole new dimension for me. I can engage in social activities with my family without “burning out” before the presents are handed out by Santa Claus. I look forward to this years Christmas, as opposed to the last few years Read More
Posted in Deaf, Late-Deafened |
Rewiring my brain – altering the language system?
December 3rd, 2009 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
How a person understand and interpret speech is an extremely complex process involving the synaptic responses to the physics of sound, neural activity in the nervous system and brain, and ultimately the processing of those neural impulses in various regions of our brain. Scientists have started Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
(This was supposed to be) Log no. 11 – day 61 (or so) – 3 month mark (, and AB is acquired by a European holding company; Sonova)
November 27th, 2009 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Whew! I was right in the middle of the process of writing a new post when it hit me: I woke up Sunday morning, and had severe vertigo and nausea. I had trouble getting to the bathroom, and when I got there I was so sick I had to puke. It took a few hours before I realized that it could be Read More
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Sound, sound, sound
November 6th, 2009 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Sorry for not updating so often anymore, but life is happening, and I have other very life-normal important things to focus on, too Sound is getting better and better in my CI. I need a new mapping, and ordered a session for it and got it fairly quickly. Unfortunately I didn’t receive word Read More
Posted in Deaf, Late-Deafened |
Log no 10 – day 41 – Different kind of tired, stress, and phantom sounds mixed with tinnitus
October 20th, 2009 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Last 2 weeks I had a throat infection, giving me sleeping trouble at night, due to irritation in the airways causing a lot of coughing. But two interesting discoveries emerged from this condition. The first thing was that since I got my CI, I am, of course, still tired from the strain of Read More
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Log no. 9 – day 37 – Progress, progress and future bureaucracy
October 16th, 2009 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
When going uphill you eventually get to the top! Recent CI-moments: * Had a family dinner with only the CI the whole time for the first time ever. First time I didn’t feel totally wiped out after a family congress I could follow the conversation somewhat by also utilizing lip-reading (which Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf, Late-Deafened |
CI-activation log no. 8 – day 25 – Unbalance
October 4th, 2009 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
The ever constant dueling between my two brain halves… See the summary at the very end of this post too Hearing aid hearing CI-hearing The sound waves produced by my hearing aid triggers the few remaining hair-cells in my left cochlea, forming sound sensations in my right brain Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf, Late-Deafened |
Hearing Loss Demonstrator
October 3rd, 2009 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
I wish I came across this many years ago… HearLoss is an interactive Windows PC program for demonstrating to normally hearing people the effects of hearing loss. With HearLoss you can replay speech, music and noise under a variety of loudness, filtering and masking conditions typical of Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
CI-activation log no. 7 – day 12 – first re-mapping and feeling of first real breakthrough
September 22nd, 2009 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Wow, has it really only been 12 days since I walked out from the hospital fitted with a new bionic ear? It feels like a much longer time ago, and so much has happened! Both in my inner self and with the CI-hearing! I hear trickling and splashing water from fountains very good, and I have Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf, Late-Deafened, Music |
Video that says a lot about my situation too
September 18th, 2009 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
This video says a lot! I find my own situation identical to these guy’s. Everything they say, even at the activation is something I certainly can identify with! The shhh sound is amazing Amazing video! Made by Rebecca Haimowitz. Enjoy! Read More
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CI-activation log no. 6 – day 8 – new test and weird sensations
September 16th, 2009 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Time for my first self-assessment test one week after the initial activation and only 5 days after completing the primary adjustments. The change is remarkable when I think about it… No sounds made sense that first day, and they made just as little sense on day 4, but then the brain kicked Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf, Late-Deafened |
CI-activation log no. 5 – first week – Impressions and thoughts
September 15th, 2009 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
I should be resting, but have so much to share, I need to unload a little First of all, thanks to everyone who leaves comments and messages! The comments are all read and appreciated! It’s just that it takes a little effort to answer then, and right now I’m in survival mode… Nothing but Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Late-Deafened, Music |
CI-activation log no. 4 – day 5 – Initial shakedown
September 13th, 2009 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Wow, what a week! I’m very tired now, but need to put some impressions onto writing… Have already had many CI-moments, here are the ones I remember now: the dogs at my mom; when they walk on the hardwood floor they give off a ticking sound for every step. I can detect them moving with sound Read More
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CI-activation log no. 3 – day 3 – 2nd auditory self assessment
September 11th, 2009 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Date of test: 09.09.2009 (1,5 and 6 kHz is the frequencies of my tinnitus, hard to hear the test-tone) I’m only using wire connection now, in order to get the exact same test environments every time. Since yesterday I have discovered new sounds: the wall clock (electronic with analog display), Read More
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CI-activation log no. 2 – day 1 and 2 – 1st auditory self assessment
September 9th, 2009 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
These values that I test on myself are values based on this resource: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html The scores are from the chart on that page. The sound-level on my laptop HP HDX18 will be set to the value of 74 every time I do this test. My CI’s volume wheel is set to exact the Read More
