and this one's for Cary
I'm still working on my second CI. It's been sounding a lot better in the last couple of weeks, but it's not up to the right when it comes to music yet. Most of what I listen to in the car is rock, or old folk stuff, or blues and a couple of old country pieces. As I've noted before, some of them sound not too bad, but the more complexity there is, and the more instrumental accompaniment they have, the less likely they are to sound really good, at least so far.
But another thing I do for aural rehab is watch videos, with my left CI only, and since that's primarily voices, it's starting to sound pretty good. I recently started to watch a show called Code Black at the recommendation of a friend, and just now watched an episode while I was on the treadmill. The program takes place in a trauma center in Los Angeles, and in this episode, a singer was brought in with pain in his throat. Turns out he had an abcess, and it was lanced and he was just waiting out the anesthesia when another patient, an elderly man with both dementia and cancer, became critical. This second patient had a son, only 18, who had been his caregiver, and the father was now in cardiac failure and unable to breathe. The decision was made to disconnect him from the machines keeping him alive, and his young son had to sit there and watch his dad die. He asked for music, because it had been a comfort to his father before.
But rather than bring in a radio they brought in the singer, and some of his castmates, who were in the hospital waiting to see how he was. And they sang for this man while he died, a song from The Lion King.
Now, I haven't seen the Lion King and don't know much about it, but the song they sang - a capella, because it was a hospital - was nice.
And it sounded wonderful.
But another thing I do for aural rehab is watch videos, with my left CI only, and since that's primarily voices, it's starting to sound pretty good. I recently started to watch a show called Code Black at the recommendation of a friend, and just now watched an episode while I was on the treadmill. The program takes place in a trauma center in Los Angeles, and in this episode, a singer was brought in with pain in his throat. Turns out he had an abcess, and it was lanced and he was just waiting out the anesthesia when another patient, an elderly man with both dementia and cancer, became critical. This second patient had a son, only 18, who had been his caregiver, and the father was now in cardiac failure and unable to breathe. The decision was made to disconnect him from the machines keeping him alive, and his young son had to sit there and watch his dad die. He asked for music, because it had been a comfort to his father before.
But rather than bring in a radio they brought in the singer, and some of his castmates, who were in the hospital waiting to see how he was. And they sang for this man while he died, a song from The Lion King.
Now, I haven't seen the Lion King and don't know much about it, but the song they sang - a capella, because it was a hospital - was nice.
And it sounded wonderful.
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