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I received an email earlier this week and thought I'd pass it along to HearPeers friends. I have always found support dealing with hearing loss with HLAA and then with HearPeers as I advanced into the world of CIs. I started the HLAA-Miami chapter because I wanted to meet other people locally who also live with hearing loss, and now with CIs as many of us progressed. I knew that I enjoyed the camaraderie and fellowship with others living in this world of HAs and CIs This article explains it well, from family and friends and now colleagues in the world of hearing loss, we all desire relationship needs to provide us with one of the following: Emotional Support – You need to be assured that you have people in your corner. Tangible Support – Are people you can call on for help on things like financial assistance, babysitting the kids so you can watch a movie, or going with you to the dentist or doctor. Appraisal Support – The people who love you enough to give you constructive and honest feedback about yourself. Informational Support – Your AuD, ENT or other professional, but also from HearPears, HLAA chapters, and CI support groups. Companionship Support – Activity friends who makes us feel socially accepted. Also from HearPears, HLAA chapters, and CI support groups. Here is the full article https://www.explore-life.com/en/articles/youve-got-a-friend

I came across this site and found a terrific set of questions to ask / consider when exploring a CI. I wish I had this information early on in my research. Colleen breaks it down into three categories: 1. the implant/electrodes 2, the CI manufacturer 3, the external processor

Dear friends, @Joan  @Jdashiell @Dave in Pittsburgh @mgfiest  @Valentin @Cara Mia @VeroNika @MallaRuth @Jewel @sassychele02 @Mary Featherston I have found that my hearing loss over the past decades has come to define me. I’m that guy that wears hearing aids. No they are cochlear implants i do a lot of explaining ========== losing my hearing gradually was like going to college I graduated with My last set of HAs. getting CIs was graduating with a PhD in hearing loss. i have learned so much over the years and am still learning I am a student of hearing loss - that’s who I am

I saw this recent post form the MedEl Blog https://blog.medel.com/rehab-at-home-what-is-auditory-memory/?utm_source=salesforce&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blogInt-update190403

From the MedEl blog https://blog.medel.com/rehab-at-home-what-is-auditory-memory/?utm_source=salesforce&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blogInt-update190403

I requested my last patient kit list and my warranty list for all my kits. i will see what I get

Last Friday my wife and I went out to eat dinner with her parents Nothing out of the normal, I brought spare rechargeable batteries, a Roger Select, and my FineTuner, just like I always do. I use the FineTuner to adjust DOWN the Sensitivity settings 5 clicks, and the Volume Down 2 clicks. This always helps me hear better at the restaurant table. I bring the Roger Select to use in case I need additional listing help. As I leave the restaurant I use the Reset 🔄 on my FineTuner to UNDO the setting I made at the table. Now we made it home with all my goodies after stopping to get my new suit tailored in the Dressing room All was peachy keen at this point - however as I went to bed, I had a horrible night interrupted sleep several time throughout the wee hours, stomach upset, feverish, many toilet trips. Next morning continued and was quite lethargic 😟. Netflix therapy. Somewhere along the past several hours, I lost my FineTuner. Now it has a label on the back to call me if found. Next morning Im on the mend, I must've ate something bad at the restaurant. As Im getting dressed my FineTuner is AWOL - I searched every where. My wife helped out too searching other everywheres. So I am extremely stressed out at this point wondering if this loss is covered by Warranty? Luckily I have a spare backup FineTuner. Today I went back to the store where I was Friday evening to check the dressing room and uptown Lost and found - Alas no record of it. So Im thinking if someone did find it, SURELY they would have called me, Surely. So I go back home to look any where I might have missed, After all I did look everywhere. So I decided I needed to look under the recliner and sure enough The FineTuner was there!!! I did check every nook and cranny, moved seat cushions etc..... but not underneath the damn chair! A lot of stress for nothing The moral of my story is that we use a lot of technology in our hearing journey with CIs, and rely on it working and being there ALL THE TIME. And as such need to make certain we follow routines. Do not set your wallet and keys down to go get your sunglasses before walking out the door, You'll end up searching everywhere for you wallet and keys!

That graphic is for the human ear. Does that mean it’s for a normal hearing person? how does it compare to a deaf ear with a CI?

@Mary Beth the Roger MyLink works perfectly, as expected, with my Roger Pen or Roger Select when I am wearing my Rondo2/ Roger1 processors. I use the FineTuner set to MT or T telecoil setting as the MyLink is a neckloop which requires setting the the telecoil option on the processors.

@Mary Beth I checked all my devices before ordered the MyLiknk type 02 Connevans $378 Amazon $500

The site you refer to on this post has been extremely helpful. Thank you!

I use both It depends on my daily needs

Yes I like these options too Artone 3 Max plus Innocaption on my iPhone Hear well and See captions in realtime!!!

The Artone Max 3 or Quattro 4 or similar Bluetooth devices use the telecoil in our processors, HA or CI. Telecoil uses ZERO battery life in a processor. That's a really cool feature of telecoils

I saw this too on the same site; Very informative Phonak Roger Fast Facts Phonak Roger is assistive hearing technology used in conjunction with hearing aids and cochlear implants. It is based on a new 6.8 million transistors wireless chip and makes use of intelligent and adaptive algorithms that avoid interference and optimise operating range. Audio signals are digitized and packaged in very short – microseconds – bursts of codes and broadcast repeatedly at different channels between 2.4000 and 2.4835 GHz. Roger systems monitor continuously which channels are free and adaptively hop around channels occupied by other systems at 2.4 GHz. Digital codes inform receivers which signals are for them and which are not, ensuring privacy for the user. Roger allows for flexible and easy creation of networks of wireless microphones and receivers, without fitting software. Frequency planning is not required. How does Roger sound? Roger provides a full audio bandwidth signal up to 7300 Hz, with an ultra low acoustic delay, high internal signal-to-noise ratio and no noticeable distortion. And in noise? Roger’s new adaptive behavior and beam formers have been proven to give hearing instrument or CI users the best ever speech understanding scores in noise. Ambient noise is measured very precisely by Roger microphones and Roger receivers adjust their volume accordingly automatically. Especially at higher noise levels of 70 to 80 dB the performance of Roger exceeds other wireless technologies by 35 to 54%*. It is not because Roger is digital or because it operates at 2.4 GHz that Roger delivers such performance, it is because of this adaptive behaviour. Roger is a new standard? Yes, Roger is compatible to most hearing instruments, cochlear implants, Baha- and soundfield systems. It is license free and the same around the world, so users can travel freely and use their Roger systems abroad. *Comparison of Speech Recognition with Adaptive Digital and FM Wireless Technology by Listeners who use Hearing Aids, Professor Linda Thibodeau PhD.