Jean's CI Journey

Recovery has been going well.  After two weeks I turned a corner, and by three weeks I was pretty much back to normal.  It has been tiring living with just one hearing aid in though.  I struggle particularly in noisy environments; it is just much harder identifying and differentiating between sounds when you no longer have stereo sound (even though my left ear was never quite as good as my right, so it wasn't 100% balanced stereo!). I did put my left hearing aid back in, and found that I could hear almost the same as before, just very slightly quieter.  It's incredible to think of the skill of the surgeon to be able to drill into my skull, poke wires into my inner ear - and cause little to no damage in the process!  I haven't gone back to wearing the left hearing aid though.  The scar tissue behind my left ear is still rather sensitive and tender (despite that whole area still being numb - it's a weird sensation!), so I'm not ready to be wearing anything ...