{"id":9276,"date":"2014-05-23T17:05:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T17:05:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-05-23T17:05:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T17:05:35","slug":"an_update_on_cochlear_implant_improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/05\/23\/an_update_on_cochlear_implant_improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"An Update on Cochlear Implant Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/60206\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is Mark, a trucker in Ogden, Utah.  Great to have you on Open Line Friday.  Hello, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hello.  Thank you for taking my call.  My question is, when you have <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=9407\">both cochlear implants turned on<\/a>, have you regained any 3D spatial awareness?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, I\u2019m still experiencing that and still testing that.  Last night I did go to dinner in a very loud restaurant, and I was part of a group of five.  There were two couples and me.  And it was the kind of place that conversation would have been impossible, literally impossible, except for the person sitting on my immediate left. I would have been able to talk to her, or I would have had to turn my head if I wanted to hear the person on my right. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=9291\"><img id=\"eZObject_91614\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushHearing2.jpg\"\/><\/a>Last night I didn\u2019t have to do that.  I was able to hear the person and the people on my right and the people on my left, and I was able to arrange some settings that focus what I heard from the front of me, which canceled out half the noise of the restaurant behind me.  It\u2019s a setting that they can do with this digital program. They couldn\u2019t do it with the old one.  Well, they could, but it wasn\u2019t as effective.  But because I\u2019ve got this thing on my right ear I do know when people are talking to me from the right side.  I still don\u2019t think I know, if I don\u2019t see where a noise is made, I don\u2019t think I know where it\u2019s coming from. Well, I know I don\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>I was sitting out on the patio of my spacious and fashionable hotel suite yesterday, and some noise started. It sounded like a jackhammer to me. I couldn\u2019t tell you where was it \u2019cause I couldn\u2019t see it, and it sounded like it was everywhere. So I don\u2019t think yet that I\u2019ve got pinpoint spatial perception yet, but who knows.  It\u2019s getting better.  Every week I\u2019m noticing improvement.  That\u2019s a great question.  I appreciate that, too.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Thank you.  So with training I think you\u2019ll probably get that spatial awareness back.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, it\u2019s something that\u2019s gonna require paying special attention to it.  If I\u2019m not aware that a sound is coming or going to be made, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever be able to figure out where it is, but if I know &#8212; not see it &#8212; but if I know where a sound is going to be made, then I might be able to pinpoint where it\u2019s coming from. The reason why that matters, it\u2019s a safety thing more than anything else.  If an intruder happens to get into the room where you are, you\u2019d like to know where they are, and that\u2019s why something like this is important.  And there are other reasons, too.  But look, Mark, I appreciate the call, I really do.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I want to pass off a somewhat funny but instructive little cochlear implant story, because that\u2019s why I\u2019m here.  I had to come out for another tune-up of the new implant I got on the right side. I had the appointment yesterday after the program.  Yesterday I had <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=9291\">come across on a website a five-minute video<\/a> that purported to help people understand how those of us with cochlear implants hear things.  I sent it up to Koko, and I had him post it so that you could all see it. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the only caveat I had to offer, I can\u2019t verify it because I\u2019m hearing it through a cochlear implant.  Now, I do hear. If you watch the video, what it did, first they just hit some tones, various frequencied tones as they normally sound, and then they simulated how it sounds to somebody with a cochlear implant.  I could hear the difference in the two, but, remember, I\u2019m hearing everything through an implant itself, so I can\u2019t testify to the accuracy of it.  That\u2019s the thing. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/00WOao4kpwM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But a lot of people talked to me about it, watched it.  \u00c2\u201cHey, you know, I think I know what\u2019s happening here. It\u2019s clipping this and it\u2019s clipping that bit over there and now that bit\u2019s not firing. You let me, I think I could fix it.\u00c2\u201d  I got it covered, thanks.  But I took the video to my appointment and I played it for my audiologist.  Now, this is not to get anybody in trouble or anything of the sort.  This is just to make a point. <\/p>\n<p>I have been working with the audiologist team at the place I go for 13 years, and I have been describing for them how the various tune-ups and programs that we create sound.  And based on my feedback, they tweak them to try to improve the way I sound.  But, at the end of the day, it is impossible. It\u2019s always amazed me about the inventor and management side of cochlear implants.  The people involved have no idea what it sounds like to the people using them.  Yet they work!  It would be like somebody blind inventing a TV set. <\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how they\u2019ve done it.  I know they use meters and graphs and charts and all that.  But when you get down to the real-world application of it, it still stuns me that people have no way of knowing how their device &#8212; well, they know how it works, but they can\u2019t possibly experience the device they\u2019ve invented as the end user does. <\/p>\n<p>So, anyway, I said, &#8220;You gotta see this.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, we\u2019ve got a guy here that\u2019s put one of these together.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;I know, I know, but this is a different one.&#8221;  She knew who this guy that had made the video was.  He\u2019s famous in the audiologist community.  So I watched her watch it, and she looked at me.  Now, remember, I\u2019ve been doing this for 13 years, and I\u2019ve been telling her how things sound to me.  And she looked at me, \u00c2\u201cDo things really sound that fuzzy to you?\u00c2\u201d <\/p>\n<p>I said, \u00c2\u201cYeah.\u00c2\u201d  In fact, I told her, what I hear, the sound on that video that I posted at the website, sounds much better than what I hear.  &#8220;Really?  It sounds that fuzzy?\u00c2\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I said, \u00c2\u201cWell, what does chipmunk mean?\u00c2\u201d  That didn\u2019t sound chipmunky, but I only mention this, not as criticism.  It\u2019s a real testament.  These people, that those of us who have implants &#8212; and there\u2019s like 324,000 of us in the world, that\u2019s all. Stop and think. If you\u2019re gonna be in the cochlear implant business, you\u2019ve got a finite number of customers.  You gotta hope for deafness.  He-he.  You don\u2019t, really.  But the business side of this is also a fascinating thing to me.  In the whole world, 324,000 people with cochlear implants.  I looked it up, in the whole world.  Now, there are many more people that need them, just can\u2019t afford them. Obamacare doesn\u2019t cover it in Nigeria and other places.  But even people I\u00c2\u2019ve been working with for 13 years, &#8220;Does it really sound that fuzzy?&#8221;  Which just told me it\u2019s not possible to tell people what sound sounds like.  It\u2019s just not possible.  If a highly trained specialist, if I can\u2019t convey how things sound &#8212; I mean I\u2019ve been telling her for 13 years how things sound, she heard that reproduction, \u00c2\u201cDoes it really sound that fuzzy?\u00c2\u201d  Then there\u2019s no way I can make anybody understand how things sound to me.  That\u2019s the point that was driven home.  And I wish there were, \u00c2\u2018cause it would help, it would help in communicating with people if they knew. <\/p>\n<p>I mean, you know, for example, somebody blind can\u2019t see.  You know what that is.  You can imagine that.  But bionic sound is something &#8212; and, see, the problem here is, if I may get deep.  Being able to communicate with people is required if you\u2019re going to have intimate, meaningful relationships with people.  And what happens is the people who can\u2019t hear you get mad at you.  One of the most frustrating things &#8212; and I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve experienced this too.  When somebody says to you, &#8220;What? I didn\u2019t hear you, can you say it again?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay.&#8221;  And you yell it.  And if they don\u2019t hear it that time, then you really get mad.  Who wants to repeat what they say?  And the hard-of-hearing or deaf person doesn\u2019t want to cause that kind of angst in people, so two things happen.  The hard-of-hearing person will either lie and pretend he or she understood what\u2019s being said, instead of saying, &#8220;I\u2019m sorry, I didn\u2019t hear you. Could you repeat that,&#8221; \u2019cause nobody wants to make other people mad.  Nobody wants to be responsible for tension being created in just a simple conversation. <\/p>\n<p>So you pretend that you heard what you didn\u2019t hear and hope that that covers it, or you just withdraw and you don\u2019t go to places where it\u2019s gonna be hard to hear so that you don\u2019t cause that kind of tension.  So the hard-of-hearing either withdraw or they fake it.  In either case you are not building meaningful relationships with people.  That is the main problem.  That\u2019s why I wish I could come up with a way to explain to people how I hear things, \u2019cause it would help them make whatever effort they have to make for me to understand them and hear them. <\/p>\n<p>You know, getting mad at people is a two-way street.  It didn\u2019t happen last night, but let me use last night as an example.  Crowded, loud restaurant.  Everybody there knew I had a second implant, obviously, and they\u2019ve heard me say that it\u2019s an improvement.  And so people &#8212; it didn\u2019t happen, but it does, people will speak to me in a crowded, loud environment and will not raise their voice. They\u2019ll not get closer. They\u2019ll make no effort for me to understand them.  It\u2019s just an instinctive thing with them. <\/p>\n<p>So, in that case, I have to nod my head and act like I know what they\u2019re saying, when I don\u2019t have the slightest idea what they\u2019re saying.  Then, you try to use association.  The way that works &#8212; for me, anyway &#8212; having a conversation with somebody about subject A. Then the conversation pauses for a few seconds. Then they say something else that you don\u2019t hear. The next thing they say you don\u2019t hear. I don\u2019t hear it, I assume &#8212; if I heard it but don\u2019t understand it, I\u2019m trying to lightning fast comprehend what I just heard, what I\u2019ll do is \u00c2\u201cmaybe it has to do with what they just said.\u00c2\u201d So I\u2019ll try to put together what I think I just heard based on something I heard moments ago, but it\u2019s still a wild guess.  And, if I then say something that is not related at all to what they just said, that makes \u2019em mad or frustrated or what have you. <\/p>\n<p>So what it really results in is people participating less in conversation, \u2019cause it just causes too much tension.  It causes people to get mad, and nobody wants to be the cause of that.  So you withdraw or you don\u2019t go places or you don\u2019t talk to people.  In some cases, I will not go. I\u2019ll not accept an invitation if it\u2019s gonna be a certain place where I know it\u2019s gonna be impossible to hear people.  I\u2019m not gonna put myself in the situation, \u2019cause it\u2019s not fun, it\u2019s not enjoyable, and all it does is cause tension. Especially, if somebody thinks in a situation like that they\u2019ve really said something really important and I have no clue what it is, and never knew what it was, they think I know it, the next time they bring it up I\u2019m totally in the dark, have no idea what they\u2019re talking about, that causes tension. <\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ve always thought that if I could just come up with a way of telling people how I hear, it would help them in speaking to me.  And so when the audiologist said to me yesterday, \u00c2\u201cDoes it really sound that fuzzy?\u00c2\u201d it just told me it\u2019s not possible.  To actually let people know how things sound.  So it requires just a further effort.  In fact, I\u2019ll tell you something.  I am a little guarded here even in talking about improvement or, \u00c2\u201cWow, this right side, oh, the magic happened, that\u2019s so much better.\u00c2\u201d  Well, it is from my baseline.  But it still isn\u2019t anywhere near normal, and never will be. <\/p>\n<p>So you have to be very, very careful how you explain to people when it\u2019s getting better, because the assumption is &#8212; the expectation, everybody hopes that the implants can restore your hearing to normal, and that will never be the case because it\u2019s not possible.  But that\u2019s everybody else\u2019s baseline.  My baseline is much, much below normal, and so improvement, to me, is far different than the way people hear me talk about it being improved.  So if you know somebody who\u2019s hard-of-hearing or maybe even has an implant, just trust the fact that they\u2019re lying to you half the time when they tell you they heard you.  And they\u2019re doing that because they don\u2019t want you to get mad at them.  They don\u2019t want to be the cause of tension. They don\u2019t want you to think they\u2019re not trying. They don\u2019t want you to think they\u2019re not paying attention.  It\u2019s just they\u00c2\u2019re not able to. <\/p>\n<p>So if they\u2019re not accepting invitations, if they\u2019re not being open with you, it\u2019s just because they can\u2019t hear you and they\u2019re tired of trying to explain it.  &#8216;Cause this told me yesterday it\u2019s impossible to convey to people.  But it doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m gonna quit trying.  It\u2019s one of the challenges I have is to find &#8212; there\u2019s gotta be some magic way that I\u2019m gonna be able to show people how things sound to me. <\/p>\n<p>One thing that I have going, and every hard-of-hearing person, any crowded environment it\u2019s tough for even the normal person to hear in a very loud place.  So there is that. There is an ability to relate on that score.  <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Okay.  So here come the snarky e-mails.  &#8220;Hey, Rush, my wife never hears a thing I say.  What\u2019s her excuse?&#8221;  Folks, I get the jokes.  I know you\u2019re sitting or you\u2019re watching TV or you\u2019re reading and somebody comes in the room and says something to you and you\u2019re not paying attention so you have to ask \u2019em to repeat it. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m talking about when you\u2019re doing nothing but talking to somebody and you only hear half of what they say. Most often you\u2019re gonna fake hearing the whole thing rather than ask them to repeat it cause it\u2019s gonna frustrate them.  I mean, when you\u2019re just doing nothing but having a conversation and you only get half of it.  When I\u2019m in a conversation with people, and I only get half of it, the odds are I\u2019ll fake it. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll act like I heard the whole thing, just to avoid saying, &#8220;I\u2019m sorry, could you say that again?&#8221; \u2019cause they just get mad. That\u2019s avoidable.  You know what one of the funniest manifestations of this is?  When I\u2019m out on those rare occasions when I do a public appearance. If there\u2019s a line of people, say, for photo or a handshake or what have you.<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s a lot of noise, I don\u2019t hear half or more what people say. So I just assume they\u2019re there because they\u2019re listeners, and they enjoyed it. So I just say, &#8220;Thank you.&#8221;  You ought to see their faces when they have complained about something or said something negative and I say, &#8220;Oh, thank you. Thank you very much.&#8221; They get the weirdest look on their face. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one of my fallbacks is just to be polite. I just say thank you when I don\u2019t understand what people have said. Sometimes it\u2019s funny, and at that point they\u2019ll say, &#8220;Wait a minute. Did you hear what I said?&#8221;  And if they ask, I\u2019ll say, &#8220;No, I actually didn\u2019t,&#8221; and then they\u2019re happy to repeat it, if they figured out that it didn\u2019t get communicated.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: This is Mark, a trucker in Ogden, Utah. Great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hello, sir. CALLER: Hello. Thank you for taking my call. My question is, when you have both cochlear implants turned on, have you regained any 3D spatial awareness? RUSH: Well, I\u2019m still experiencing that and still testing that. 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