Birdsboro Plus my comprehension (ability to understand words) is only like 10% anyway.
This is me also!!
I sit home every day all alone, no sounds from voices. No TV unless captioned. No music, but I sometimes do turn on YT vids, but the sound has gone with just PC speakers.
With the lack of sounds in life, it is getting harder to understand people when I am around them.
I suppose there may be a way to retrain the ears, but haven't found that yet. I do get out and around people in stores and such, just to see. The kids tell me to turn on music, TV, etc., but it's all just scratchy noises now, won't help but to add to my tinnitus.
Audiologists have nothing to add, except to make sounds louder, which is not needed; the higher the sound, the worse the understanding. Even explained that having the cochlear implant will not help much at all.
It is an ear-to-brain thing that many have.
