My cochlear implant thanks you for your thoughtful videos from technical info to simply how to make the hearing loss life easier. I stream to my implant & aide via a Cochlear brand tv streamer, what a WONDERFUL accessory. Many compliments to your channel and how you share topics with sincerity.

Thank you so much for the update. Your videos have been inspiring and helpful to me on my journey. You're doing an amazing job! Please keep up the good work.

Happy 1st birthday, Nelle‘s hearing loss! Mine will turn like 24 this year. It‘s probably older. But that‘s when wearing hearings aids started for me. I was about your age, when I was diagnosed with a 50% loss. And much to my surprise, I had impression goo in my ears the same day! Everyone concluded that I naturally wanted to wear hearing aids. And, yes, they helped a lot. However, I felt so self-conscious with them in that I went through a lot of trouble trying to hide them and pretend all was normal. It took me years to finally accept and embrace the fact that I‘m hard of hearing and that actually no one cares, if I wear hearing aids or not (all those years of hiding for nothing!). I am telling you all this, because I was so amazed with how you handled your sudden hearing loss. I admire you for your pragmatic approach and the rational analysis of the issues and the solution at hand („let‘s have some hearing“). And I love the humor. I had to laugh so many times. I think I was the exact opposite, when I was diagnosed with my hearing loss. And in hindsight that makes me kind of sad. Because I would have rather been more like you. But maybe it‘s true what you said in the other video. That it might be easier to wear hearing aids, if they make the difference between no and some hearing and not between not so good and normal hearing, as it was for me. Anyways, I was happy to find this video today and to see that you‘re happy. Spanish and BSL sounds beautiful, by the way. And I wish you all the best.

Congratulations on the job Nelle! Good to have something to focus on. Your videos continue to inspire me and you are beautiful xx

feeling 'pretty normal' is amazing. good for you.

Congratulations on getting the job Nelle. You play down your achievements (like we English people do!) but you are doing amazingly well. I will look forward to your future videos.

Hi Nelle💗I can't believe it's nearly a year since you lost your hearing! I have followed your journey since the first video! It did not help being in the middle of covid & lockdowns so it was hard to see an NHS audiologist! So you had to go private for hearing aids,in your last video you said the NHS was sorting out your hearing aid to help with your implant did they manage that? How do you think you would have managed a year on if you only had powerful BTE hearing aids & no implant? But well done for getting a job,it helped you working with the public at the dentist! Plus you passed your driving test! Also well done for getting in to university & to learn more BSL & it's good there is a big deaf community at the university your going too.. do you think once you learn more BSL & pass all the exams when your with the deaf community do you think you will sign more & be less verbal? With the cochlear implant can you hear your own voice? Since I lost virtually all my hearing I cannot hear my own voice,I am told I do speak very loud & I speak like I have a cold! Haha! I can't hear your voice at all now so one bit of advice going forward is to make sure you keep working on your speech! I can see your now getting fed up with the hearing aid! I don't even know if mine help now but the audiologist said I must wear them or my auditory processing nerve will die! Do you have an idea what career you want to do after leaving university? A dream job? I hope that implant people change their rules or you find the money to get the other ear implanted as that would help you no end! But to sum up the year I think you should be proud of what you have achieved & what the future holds! I know what it's like to lose your hearing,the anxiety & I ended up on anti depressants! Amytriplene..finding out I am on the autistic spectrum,having a form of dyslexia! I hope you make further videos sorry this was a longer ramble than usual,a family member is close to death & on palitive care in the hospital she started to get dementia & suddenly stopped eating she is 83 so I not been on social media much but wanted to reply to your video! Stay safe 🤗

I just came across your channel today. I completely lost my hearing suddenly around June 2021 in my left ear. After a year and a half, the doctor just recommended CI for me. I'm gathering all information about CI as much as I can right now and your channel helps a lot. Thanks :)

I’m glad to hear that you are adjusting well! I can relate to your experience with phone calls. They can be quite the challenge at times. I try to stream my phone calls to my cochlear implant and hearing aid but I have to have that all set up in advance for that to work. Sometimes I don’t have my artone neckloop or it’s not connected to my phone and then I can’t stream. Then it’s even more of a challenge. Sometimes putting them on speaker phone helps when I can’t stream.

Hey Nelle, you seem like such an amazing person. My name is Boe and im 17, and a month ago i had ssnhl in my R and a few days later also in my L ear. After only getting steroids 6 days after losing my hearing (i thought it was just an infection) i was on them for about 2 weeks with no improvement that i could notice. I never looked up what ssnhl was, i just let my mum deal with it but as time went on she got more and more worried - as I now know theres a limited time frame to get hearing back. Im a classical pianist who regularly plays with orchestra's and in the Royal Albert Hall in London - this ins't what i want to do as an occupation (i'd like to study medicine/chemistry) but its something that is so important to me. Yesterday i had my audiology test (pure tone and ABR) and i was told im profoundly deaf and my consultant has refferred me for cochlear implant - i cant hear anything no matter the Hz more than 105 decibels. in both ears. As you can bet im currently in a state of shock and disbelief - i was a musician, with perfect pitch who's now profoundly deaf. Ik its only been a day since a 'proper' diagnosis so maybe i need time for it to sink in but yeh. I was wandering if you could help me with any tips on how to adjust with friends and in school, and really just how you managed to keep you head above water! Oh and with how your cochlear implant sounds now, do you think i'll still be able to play piano? and do you think it best for me to start learning BSL? Thanks so much for your time, Boe

Thanks for the update. Like watching your videos. I have hearing loss since birth but it’s getting worse and I am looking into getting a cochlear implant’

Thanks for the update video! Do you think that, as time passes, your overall dependency on lip-reading will diminish? Assuming you keep doing exercises and such.

Good day Nelle. Thank you for your videos. I've been interested in deafness ever since I was in 1st grade and learned about it through the Helen Keller story -- I'm 66 so that was a long time ago. I do know finger spelling and still use it. I have a several questions. The first is about multiple conversations. When you say you have difficulty understanding in a crowd, is it because the cochlear processor garbles the sound making it sound like the din of a crowded room? Also, many people who have never heard prior to having an implant say voices sound robotic. That's an interesting description/reaction as those who have never had hearing would not know what a robot sounds like. So, would you agree or would you describe the processor sound differently? Three, now that time has passed, how has the sound changed, including your own voice. Finally, you once discussed music and that it sounds different. Is it possible to ever hear clear melody or vocals or is it always changed by the processor? Thank you for your answers. You are in a unique position to be able to answer given your recent but profound hearing loss. I also want to say, as a visual person, sign language looks beautiful. Merry Christmas 🎄!

Hola Nelle, mi alegro que hables Español. I think the fact that Spanish is spelled phonetically, and that you already have a reasonable level of understanding, will probably make your journey easier than it would be with other languages. I hope you do well and enjoy Uni. Spanish is an important language spoken in many places in the world. I enjoy living in Spain, and being able to speak the language enriches the experience. Maybe one day I might be able to travel to the Americas to enjoy other Spanish speaking areas. (My brother lives in Mexico, that would be a nice place to visit). Best wishes to you, Neale

I lost my hearing in my left side 2 months ago. I’m currently debating whether to get a BAHA or cochlear implant. It’s good to understand the limitations of cochlear implants. Your “robot voice” video was eye opening. I definitely miss bi-neural hearing but wonder if I’ll be able to adapt to the type of hearing the implants provide.

Firstly, thank you for sharing your story ♥️ I'm wondering if you had tinnitus during your SHL? And if the cochlear implant helped with getting rid of the whooshing noise?

Nelle, i suffer from severe tinnitus that I have a hard time to handle. Just want to say that you are so inspiring to follow. It is really amazing what you have been able to accomplish under a year. Did you have any tinnitus with your hearing loss? Did it get better with the implant?

Doesn’t time fly? A whole year, 12 months, 365 days.... anyway, delighted you’re making progress. I’m sure the hotel work and life at university will give you new perspectives and increase your confidence. Hopefully, at some point, you get the opportunity to embarrass your brother at university, that seems like too good an opportunity to miss! Thanks for the update and here’s to a fruitful year.

I was going to go to community college for asl last September but backed out because I realized I can still hear pretty well and the program I was going into had no one with hearing loss or similar experiences as me… So I decided to switch my current major to geology because you don’t need to hear or listen to rocks to know rocks , unlike psychology - if you know what I mean? And my professors are very accommodating at my school, specifically in the geology department . There was a time in my radiation and environment class that the professor whipped out a Geiger counter (?) and placed it near a uranium ore rock and I was like 😐 while everyone else was like 😲

Very inspiring. I had something similar happen four months ago - not as challenging as what you experienced but still quite serious - and have questions I'd love to ask you. Would it be possible to contact you via email?

Do you hear a weird whistling noise without your implant and hearing aids on? I hear this whistling noise

Oh ya. Worst part about hearing loss? Right when it happens.

Background noise is awful. Since I still have some hearing I take out my hearing aids in restaurants and the noise goes away but I can hear the people I’m eating with. Masks are the worst