Last Friday, I had what would be considered an emergency mapping session. I really wasn’t expecting to have another one until my left ear activation date (2/15/2008) but it turned out that I maxed out on the settings from December 20th and was having a very hard time with the mid-range to low frequencies. But Michelle, my audie, was nice enough to squeeze me in.
Basically, we increased the low and mid-range frequencies and left the highs alone. That became program #1 and then we took that and increased it overall by 10% and put that into program #2. Program #1 would become my everyday and #2 is available in case I max out on #1. Program #3 will remain my old HiRes-P program which I’ll probably will never use but when I go “bi”, it will become my low volume HiRes-S program so that I can get my new ear up to speed without it having to compete with the right one. What a difference the adjustments made and despite the increases which were above the thresholds of my old HiRes-P programs, I did not experience not even one little hint of a twitch.
For those of you who would like to make a comparison between the 2 programs as well as to your own, here are the specs. The top is Program #1 and the bottom is Program #2. If these are too hard to read, click here to contact me and I’ll send you the Reader’s Digest large-print version.
As of this writing, a little more than 15 days remain before I go fully bionic. Am I nervous? Nah! Am I excited? You bet! Anyway, this will probably be my last post for 2007. Before I go, I want to wish two of my favorite Checker’s hotties a very happy January 1st birthday. That would be Diane and Gloria. And lemme tell ya…I won’t reveal their true ages but I can promise you one thing…they can put a good 50% of today’s generation of chicks to shame!
Woo Sam! Got to love that you are making headway and need to turn yourself up! Two weeks from now you will have another new toy to play with, hehe!