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RUSH: I\u2019ll be out on the Left Coast later in the week. It\u2019s actually gonna be an exciting week. It\u2019s kind of unknown because it\u2019s later this week that I have my new cochlear implant activated and mapped and, at that point, find out whether or not it made sense to do it. (interruption) Well, no, \u2019cause it can\u2019t be any worse. But there are no predictors. It\u2019s just three weeks ago that I had surgery to have the cochlear implant put on the right ear.<\/p>\n

They have to wait to turn it on and program it and map it for three to four weeks to let the swelling the surgical incision area go down. So I\u2019m scheduled for later this week after the program. I\u2019m not gonna miss any broadcast time. It\u2019s fascinating the way this works, and, as many times as I\u2019ve explained it to people, they can\u2019t grasp it. If you don\u2019t understand it, it\u2019s not your fault, and the main problem is that people who can hear cannot understand.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Even though you think you might, you cannot understand total deafness. You can\u2019t relate to it; you can\u2019t create it. You can put earplugs in, but you still hear things. You can put headphones on with no audio; you can still hear things. You do not know what total deafness is. You have no idea. You cannot possibly relate to it, as hard as you try. It\u2019s not anybody\u2019s fault. So the whole concept of a cochlear implant is foreign to people. <\/p>\n

The hearing is not natural. It\u2019s totally bionic. It\u2019s totally artificial. It uses your audial nerve, but it does not use the ear. Well, it uses the cochlea, but that\u2019s not even true. It just taps into the audial nerve. The ear actually is gone after the surgery. The way the implants work, there are 35,000 hair cells in each human hair. They are actively awake. They stand up, they vibrate, they move around, and that\u2019s what enables you to hear.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the first step in the audial process for a human being, those hair cells. Well, mine are dead, laying down. So they\u2019ve been replaced with 21 man-made electrodes. It\u2019s nowhere near 35,000. So the sensitivity to various frequencies just isn\u2019t there. But everybody is different. They cannot tell you how you\u2019re gonna do no matter what. There are no predictors. You don\u2019t know until you actually turn it on and have it mapped. <\/p>\n

That is another thing that\u2019s hard to explain. It changes from person to person. What will happen is, I\u2019ll sit in there wired up, and they\u2019ll start pumping tones into my cochlear implant at various frequencies, at an almost impossible-to-hear low volume. And the moment you think that you hear the tone, you let them know, and they mark it down. <\/p>\n

After you do this for four hours with all different kinds of tones, what they think they\u2019ve come up with is the frequency response and range that an individual has. And if you\u2019re not honest with \u2019em, if you screw around, you can have a cochlear implant mapped in such a way you can\u2019t understand anything. It can be done very easily. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why it\u2019s precise. It\u2019s nerve-wracking in terms of intense concentration to get it right. You want it to be as good as it can be. Anyway, that\u2019s what I\u2019m looking forward to the end of the week. It can\u2019t get any worse than what it is. The hope is that it will expand speech comprehension and improve my ability to determine where sounds are coming from. I\u2019ll be sure and keep you posted on all of it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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