John's Blog

Frustrated with short battery life due to my CI using 2400hz and the popularity of 900hz setting, I decided to make an appointment to change to 900hz.

I had this done last week. I had 2 objectives, increase battery life, open more channels since I am barely using half of the 22 channels.

I went through the long mapping process where we go through each channel to see what the limits are. Turns out I can't use channels 1-3, 10 & 11 due to piercing needle feeling in the ear. I also cannot use channels 16-22 due to that darned facial nerve being in the way that causes my facial muscles to pull.

So I only have 4-9,12-15 channels available. Just plain sucks. Maybe I was just not meant to hear as well as I had hoped.

If only I could pick up speech with better clarity. Perhaps in future with possibility of stem cell... if only President Bush would get his head out of his religious arse.