Nobody Warned Me About THIS Part of Getting Cochlear Implants 😂
**ACCIDENTALLY DELETED SO THIS IS A REPOST**
Okay, I have a question for my fellow CI users who have zero—or almost zero—residual hearing.
I’m bilateral. I’ve been completely deaf for going on 12 years and implanted for almost 6 years now. Without my processors, my world is basically silent.
There were obviously a LOT of sounds I had to get used to after getting implanted. But there is one particular category of sound that nobody—not my surgeon, not my audiologist, not Cochlear—thought to warn me about:
Going to the bathroom with hearing.
Good Lord. 😂
After years of silence, the first time I went to the bathroom while wearing my processors, I remember thinking, “WHY IS EVERYTHING IN HERE SO DAMN LOUD?!”
Six years later, I still haven’t gotten over it.
To this day, when nature calls, I either turn the sensitivity on both processors all the way down to zero or just take the damn things off.
Apparently there are some parts of the hearing world I was perfectly happy not being invited back into.
So I have to know:
Am I the only deaf/CI person who does this, or are there other people out there who basically put their cochlear implants on bathroom mute? 😂