Life is busy with school and a boyfriend.
However, I do want to say that I absolutely hate the telecoil button on my implant. I by accident turned it on a few days ago, and was freaking out over the noise that started in my head. It basically was extremely uncomfortable to have such static interference from the number of electric products around me, specifically the tv and the laptop.
I should explain how the telecoil works though... and I have to look this information up after all i never realized how it even works.
Basically the telecoil is a coil of wire inside the hearing aid and my implant. It picks up the magnetic sounds that comes from electrical products such as the telephone and tv. They provide sound through magnets and this is pretty much another way for us deaf people to pick up sounds, instead of using a microphone we are using a telecoil to pick up the sounds that is being projected from the magnet found in the electronics. Cellphones do not have magnets in them, so most of them are not usable with the telecoil setting on our hearing aids and implants, however they have created a way for it to be usable with cellphones, and those phones have a rating of from t1 to t4 which is the best.
Anyways... I'm tired of writing about the telecoil, basically I was just not remembering what it's like to have the telecoil turned on and freaked out over that. It was unusual to be hearing things differently through the implant for once.
The other update that I have is that I'm pretty much reattempting at learning sign language again, my boyfriend asks a lot about it, and I realized that I do not remember a lot and it's useful to quickly just sign something from across the room or in a quiet place such as the library where we are often...
Anyways,
back to the grind.
-Annie
