My un-sound condition – pre CI era

I want to make this list in order to remind myself what it was like before I got the CI (2007/2008). Maybe I run into problems post-surgery post-sound activation and need a reminder of how I reacted to sounds before the operation(s). It’s a time capsule to myself…

Here’s a similar post I wrote January this year…

These are the sounds that causes great stress, fatigue, even pain and vertigo in me these days… 

• All things mechanical like car engines, especially bigger engines like on buses and trucks.
• to many voices at the same time, especially if a little loud
• the clanking sound of ceramics against ceramics (dinner plates)
• my son at the top of his voice (vertigo)
• my mothers voice when louder
• children voices
• the vibration sounds from my computer, or maybe it’s one of the fans
• inside my car
• elevator music and “muzak” (because it’s too faint for me to grasp, or too noisy otherwise, my brain tries too hard)
• the hiss from the steamer on a cappuccino-machine
• if everything else is quiet, the refrigerator noise is picked up by my HA and that sound wears me down
• the air-condition in office buildings and alike
• stiletto-heels and other hard shoe soles on hard surfaces
• vacuum-cleaner and other domestic appliances
• music    
• any sounds in a room with bad acoustics (naked floors, walls and ceiling echoing sounds)
• any background sound when I’m having a conversation

These are the sounds I can’t hear at all anymore even with hearing aids on

• Birds singing (could hear them faintly as a kid)
• My cat meowing
• My bedside alarm clock
• the fire alarm
• the doorbell
• running water
• rain falling on rooftop
• someone yelling my name from a distance or another room