Yep, somehow it did happen!! I was bending to pick up a dropped spoon in the kitchen and… shall we say, the side of me head was drawn to the fridge!! (grin) I guess that could be a new form of subliminal hinting that it is time to eat?? I’ll have to see. (smile)
It’s Lehgomets time again today, and Yankees opener tomorrow. I’ll be having a Mets Opener hotdog party tonight from Mustard’s Last Stand. Probably just mee alone, as I know primetime on a Sunday is not easy for anyone to join in at times. Oh well. We’ll see how it goes. And hopefully, game day audio will work on the computer this year. I’ve been told of an easy way to find the site content, and it sort of worked in pre season, so we’ll see later today, and hope it’s not too good to be true. (grin)
This kind will be language and speech pathology, along with fluency and flow mixed in. Lots of further drilling and exercise, even below the foundation of words and sentences. That is, the actual true components of the makeup of sounds; All kinds of combos, like vowell A great way to narrow down specifically which sound occurrences in everyday life need tweaking. And, we’ll also do scenarios of reading out loud, and lots of other conversational practice, and other skills along with it. That will be my once a week add-on, along with the regular mapping sessions. And, I’ll also be able to have additional sessions working with the students in clinic up here locally later on. I say, the more the merrier to reinforce the plunge taking during the adventure., consonant combos, consonant consonant combos, vowell vowell, vowell consonant, and so forth.
Last Friday night was great. A big old downpour, accompanied by pieces of hail. And while on the way home on the bus, what a fine sound sensation it all was. Now that I know what that can sound like again, maybe I’ll test out riding through a car wash. I always enjoyed that one in the past. In Februrary, we had bought thunderdrums, a big and small one, that seem to make some great storm sounds. You can get them in Boulder at the NCAR Science Store. I’ll havet o post thunderdrum sounds here soon.
And also the cornedbeastandcabbages and potatoes we after ate!! Highly recommended, Town Hall Arts center in Littleton, the stage is at floor level, seating about 250, very hospitable staff, and even assistive listening widgets that I could plugg meself into. Hope to catch some future shows there soon.
It will be a day for attending a play. That will be the first time to give the right ear a test in that kind of environment. It’s the musical for “Footloose”, at the Town Hall Arts Center in Littleton. And then after that, it is of course the occasion for the evening of corn beast and cabbage as well with Maryann and company, after the play.
Now that I’ve had the chance to really plow ahead and start learning about the new windows box, it’s time for calling all skypers!! If you’re on that thing, I’m very interested to learn, as I gather the audio of it is very excellent. Drop me a note with your skype name and I can add you, or attempt to do so. You can add me as well, and we’ll see what happens. Mine is
paul.migliorelli
Here’s looking forward to chatting.
It’s that time of the semester at C U Boulder speech language center classes where I have the chance to speak at several classes. There are 3 this go-round that I’ll be doing over the next month; reflecting on life, the universe and everything. Lots of anecdotes, and I always encourage questions, questions and more questions. This will be the first time I’ll be talking about the new world of right ear implant, and the adventures I’m encountering and discovering each day. Nothing like adding a new chapter to the mix.
For those interested in learning some excellent background and perspective on cochlear implants, (C I), Karen and I have begun an out loud reading of Rebuilt, How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human, by Michael Chorost. More info can be found on
michaelchorost.com
available via the bookmarks page right here.
If you are an NLS talking book user, you can find it on cassette as RC 6 0 8 5 0
The later paperback edition is the same as the hardcover, but titled Rebuilt, My Journey Back To The Hearing World.
Not sure yet if it’s available on commercial audiobook for mainstream reader usage. Lots of differences in experiences of course, but there sure are many parallels found within.
I’ve begun asking people to read things out loud to me. That is, familiar texts, and, being further adventurous, unfamiliar texts. Everything from kid’s books, to grownup. It’s a good way to immerse the right ear to get a sense of different voice characteristics. All are welcome to join in, be it in person, over the phone, or whatever you have the time for. It’s cool when different people read different things, and also different people reading the ***same material, allowing for getting a different acoustic all around. Thanks to Mary T, Shelly, Robin, and Karen so far. We’ve covered such diverse matter all the way from children’s fare such as Walter the Farting Dog series, to some excellent autobiographical memoirs like To Race The Wind by Harold Krents. I look forward to reading more with my new right side. As of yesterday Friday morning, and all day this day, things are really starting to settle in with this week’s brand new retuning and tweaking. I know things will move forward very nicely!! (smile)
OK then. Yes, well. Here I go with another attempt at the audio portion of the blogg. Please let me know here if you try playing it and it goes silent and there is nothing there to be heard. If it is silent, once again, we’ll have to call it the multi media blogg, the deafness edition (grin) I’d like to solve this puzzle as to why it goes silent once I post the audio.
Since I haven’t yet figured out the pattern of when the audio part of the blogg will work consistently, you are always welcome to call and hear the latest phonecast on the home voicemail, which is also the shoephone. Much of what is written here is summarized there. And when you call, you can always press 1 to go directly to leaving a message. You can call in 2 ways: You can always call directly and ring the phone on + 1 3 0 3 5 5 2 6 9 7 0, and you’ll hear it if I don’t happen to be able to answer. Or, if you wanna call, and not ring the phone at that moment, like if you’re up in the middle of the night and need a sleep aid, you can listen through the voicemail backdoor. That is, call +1 3 0 3 4 8 9 9 2 0 0 and when prompted to enter the 10 digit number you want, then you would do 3 0 3 5 5 2 6 9 7 0
Yes, I know, it probably gets way complex remembering all those steps and things. I know, I know. Silly, isn’t it?? (smile)
Another very intense 3 hours session. Pretty much a total remapping of the system. While discussing my various experiences from the last 2 weeks, and making mention of which specific settings I found myself gravitating to use, it was determined that I could certainly use a specific default setting for quiet environments, and that I shouldn’t have to rotate between various forms of background noise filtering. I could use those settings for the everyday usage where I really need to do so. It was diagnosed that my louds threshold was too loud, the high frequencies were rather too high at the moment, and, that the quiets threshold was actually too ***loud!! Yes, that’s not a typo, but indeed too loud (grin) Of course, one does want environmental awareness of what’s around you, but, background sounds need to be just that; ***In the background. So, as a result of that total mapping, I do indeed have some much clearer settings to use, but, when I was tested right after the remapping with all those random words, this time I only got 33 percent. But that’s okay. On top of the remapping, I did have a different tester, with an unfamiliar voice. But, because of the remapping, the words I did get right were ones with lots of high frequency sound components. Even though the score was low, that I guess was to be expected. And oh yes. It’s been decided that they’ll test me with random words rather than sentences where there is context, as sentences are what I do very well with, and the random words they can ***really make even tougher, since I have nothing to relate them to anything that might be said (smile). And I’m really enjoying starting to have different people read familiar texts out loud; that is, different people reading different things, and, different people reading the same things, so I can get a broad sampling of all kinds of voice characteristics. More to follow. remember: be sure to eat your Hagendas icecream, and hotdogs today!! Both in extremes have been scientifically proven to help your herring, I mean hearing!! (smile)
So I’m home on Wednesday telecommuting and all, and I decided to make these Schwans toaster grilled cheese sandwiches. Guess they got a little too grilled with that effort. Well, let’s just say one more jotting for new things to hear for the ear log, as I definitely know I can hear the smoke detector (smile).
March 1 marks the 11th anniversary of moving from back east to out here west!!
Back again yet again!! Sorry for the various mail things shown below, which I don’t have yet the hang of editing and deleting text properly in a win environment (grin) I shall learn how though, along with all the other learning to come. I’m truly having a soundtastic field day!! (smile)
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Back again (fwd)
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:01:47 -0700
From: “Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 5 2 6 9 7 0)” < paulmigs@migliorelli.org>; To: paulmigs@migliorelli.org
Subject: Back again
Hi all!! A very successful first start and new beginning post cochlear implant activation!! Lots of actual speech recognition, lots of environment, and, getting used to determining the difference between those sounds you want to focus on, and what sounds are background and ambient noise. My sister described watching the activation and initial tweaking on screen as like the scene in Close Encounters where they sync the tones, and the mother ship lands, and all the lights flash. When I was getting even the words that I was given randomly, and wasn’t told were coming, I was told you could see the various electrodes firing, when different sound components occur, like consonants, and vowels, and various things. 10 days later, I had today’s appointment, the first of many therapy sessions over the next months. 3 plus hours of testing and more initial tweaks and fine tuning, I actually got 100 percent contextual sentence recognition, and for random open set words, which have no context relationship, I got 56 percent. They say they usually expect someone initially to maybe get 20 percent better on sentences than on random words, but, with my 100 percent on sentences, I got 44 percent better!! I also was able to score responses on all hertz and db ranges tested. The audiologist said oh yes, this will indeed become your dominant ear (smile) When I look back on what I truly expected 10 days ago, I thought, ***Even if there isn’t any initial hearing, please let there be a signal sensation, just to show me a hint that there can be the hope for some physical breakthrough and power. Sure enough, it feels great!! It’s like a straight shot with punch and powerful ummph right to the source and to the brain, without the prior feeling of sounds trying to fight through a physical mush wall. I can use my aid on the left side to give me a slight help along for the newly reborn right implant side, to give me a tweak of a person’s voice characteristics and pronunciation. But I instantly found myself gravitating over to the right, as it immediately kicked to dominate the situation. Lots of mega work ahead, but this last week has been great fun, I’ve had a field day with my initial soundtastic re encounters, of the things I’ve not heard on the right in 25 years, and this has totally way cool all kinds of potential upcoming. Lots of major work sessions ahead, but I’m ready for the adventure!! (smile)
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Don’t know why yet, but some entries are ending up silent once posted. Must be a case of the audio blog, special edition for deaf folks (smile). The trouble will be pursued, and hopefully there can be a multi something or other blogg after all!! Stay tooned…
You know, something like this can have mega potential for all kinds of things. The magnet is what allows the implant’s computer that is worn outside behind the ear to communicate with the implant inside the head. So, the thought of a magnet makes me think of bursting into song!! Gilbert and Sullivan, from their operetta “Patience”.
A magnet hung in a hardware shop.
And all around were a And all around were a loving crop.
Of scissors and needles, nails and knives,
spouting love for all their lives!!
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