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!