The surgery was successful. I’m still in pain but it has subsided to the degree that I am no longer taking the prescription pain killer medication. Tylenol is not as effective, so I feel more pain, but it is subsiding. And Tylenol doesn’t make me as sleepy.

I am hopeful that the good hearing I had when the first implant was installed two years ago will be restored. It was a defective unit in a defective batch created on a particular manufacturing line within a specific time period. During my periodic visits every three months, my Audiologist at the University of Arizona noticed the degradation after a year had gone by and alerted the manufacturer who sent a doctor to examine me and tested the implant. She determined that a certain number of the transducers at the higher frequencies in the implant had failed.

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Each battery is 1/2 inch or 1.25 centimeters wide.

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My Left Ear Is Still A Little Floppy

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My Cochlear Implant Surgery Stitches Being Removed

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As an experiment, and to fulfill my audiologist's explicit requirements, I’m reading the Gutenberg Press online free version aloud. The goal is to retrain my brain to understand what the cochlear implant hears, i.e., the signals it sends to my brain.

The LibriVox version shown here is not understandable. It doesn't work for me. So I've started reading the Gutenberg Project's online version of Albert Einstein's Lectures on The Meaning Of Relativity aloud.

Today, I will try having my aid read it aloud, with me reading it on my mobile phone or printed out on my printer.

It should be an interesting experiment.
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Here’s a link to The Gutenberg Project Version that you can read on your computer or mobil phone:
www.gutenberg.org/files/36276/36276-pdf.pdf

After going to the Gutenberg version;
1. In your browser's View, set the size to see a portion of the first page that you can read easily.
2. Scroll down to start reading this page and all other pages of the book.
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