Listening Closely: A Journey to Bilateral Hearing

by Romoff, Arlene

• ISBN13: 9781936140213
• ISBN10: 1936140217
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-01
• Publisher: Random House Inc

Summary

When she was a teenager, Arlene Romoff's hearing slowly started to slip away-until no hearing aid or other standard device could help her anymore. She had become completely deaf. But thanks to the miracle of technology-including her upgrade to state-of-the-art bilateral cochlear implants-Arlene went from silence to beautiful sound once again.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 11
Prologue	p. 13
Laying the Foundation
From Normal to Deaf in Twenty-five Years	p. 21
Cochlear Implants-Surgery and Activation	p. 27
Capabilities and Limitations	p. 31
Transformation
Twenty-four Days of Silence	p. 37
March 14, 2008: What I've Learned So Far-Five Days without Sound	p. 41
March 18, 2008: What I've Learned So Far-Nine Days without Sound	p. 43
March 21, 2008: Pre-Op Testing	p. 46
March 23, 2008: The Secrets of the Broken CI World	p. 48
March 26, 2008: Adventures and Exhaustion	p. 51
	p. 52
Replacing the Cochlear Implant	p. 55
April 2, 2008: Activation Day-I Can Hear Again!	p. 56
April 4, 2008: Reaping with Joy-The Wedding	p. 58
April 10, 2008: From Silence to Sound-One Week	p. 59
April 12, 2008: Compare and Contrast	p. 61
April 28, 2008: Some New Tricks	p. 62
May 18, 2008: Doing "Better"-Gold, Silver, Bronze	p. 63
May 20, 2008: Moving Toward Bilateral	p. 65
May 31, 2008: Patience and Piano	p. 66
June 8, 2008: TV as Therapy	p. 67
June 12, 2008: B and B and Yosemite	p. 69
July 6, 2008: Three-month Real-life Evaluation	p. 73
July 10, 2008: Official Three-month CI and Bilateral Evaluation	p. 75
July 20, 2008: Wake-up Calls	p. 78
July 26, 2008: The Persistence of Memory	p. 81
August 4, 2008: The Ultimate Computer	p. 83
August 14, 2008: Behaving Myself	p. 84
August 24, 2008: Arts and Crafts	p. 86
August 25, 2008: The Sand and the Sea	p. 88
Bilateral Cochlear Implants	p. 91
August 31, 2008: Thinking Bilateral	p. 91
September 7, 2008: Out of the Comfort Zone	p. 93
	p. 94
September 18, 2008: Bilaterally Enabled	p. 98
October 1, 2008: Waiting	p. 100
October 2, 2008: Bilateral Activation!	p. 102
October 4, 2008: Two Ears/Two Days	p. 106
October 7, 2008: Stereo	p. 110
October 10, 2008: Days of Awe	p. 113
October 17, 2008: Finding Happiness	p. 116
October 23, 2008: Revelations	p. 118
October 26, 2008: Better in Noise	p. 120
October 31, 2008: Playing for Real	p. 122
November 25, 2008: Practice and Progress	p. 123
	p. 126
December 7, 2008: Intermediate Level	p. 129
December 11, 2008: Sound Decisions	p. 131
December 22, 2008: Small Surprises	p. 134
January 3, 2009: Matched Marvels	p. 137
January 11, 2009: One Good Turn	p. 139
January 16, 2009: Orientation	p. 143
January 19, 2009: Born Yesterday	p. 145
February 1, 2009: The Sand and the Sea Reprise	p. 148
February 16, 2009: The Visit	p. 151
February 23, 2009: Directionality Redux	p. 156
March 3, 2009: Hidden Agendas	p. 159
April 4, 2009: Tears of Joy	p. 161
April 26, 2009: Lasting Impressions	p. 163
Epilogue	p. 167
How a Cochlear Implant Works	p. 169
Acknowledgements	p. 171
Index	p. 173
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