Chuckie Butler是Med-El Cochlear植入物的收件人。这是他的人工耳蜗植入故事，一段从事工作和生活中取得成功的旅程。
伴随着听力损失
我天生就是正常听力，但是当我1岁时，我的发烧极高的发烧，导致神经损伤，因此造成了听力损失。
我不记得了这一点，因为它发生在我这么年轻的时候。我妈妈告诉我，它是脑膜炎，我的温度为107°F.我爸爸告诉我医生如何让我进入一个装满冰的浴缸，试图让我的温度降低。
只要我的父母意识到我有hearing loss they fitted me with hearing aids. I apparently hated them (the hearing aids, of course) and would frequently dump them into the toilet or into the trash. We lived in Chicago at the time and I attended a deaf school for my kindergarten. The next summer my family moved to a small town in southern Illinois, and when I enrolled into 1圣grade there were no specialized schools in the area. I was doing much better with my hearing aids, so it had been determined that I didn’t need the special attention and/or treatment afforded to students in a deaf school.
Hearing Aids for Deteriorating Hearing
I was still wearing hearing aids when I started my job at the Indiana State Excise Police Department, 14 years ago. At that time, I was perfect at reading lips and did marginally on the phone and even less so on the radio. I did just fine during details and had no issues but my hearing started to deteriorate more rapidly as time wore on. Communicating on the radio was difficult enough and talking on the phone was getting worse.
My Major at the time was in charge of our department insurance and had advised me that our plan offered alternatives if I wanted to explore them. In the meantime, my department was very committed to my success and provided me with a Teletypewriting Device (TTD) to use while at the office but also relegated me to only working daytime hours in a limited duty status. I hated this period with a passion but my hearing had deteriorated quite a bit by this time and I had no choice. By then, I had been wearing hearing aids for 28 years and did very well with them until my hearing deteriorated.
由于我的听证会显着恶化，助听器不再向我提供我需要接收的信息，我开始探索其他选择，因为我的保险范围足够慷慨地覆盖它。此外，由于各种原因，具有良好的听证会对执法很重要，我需要找到对我有用的东西，以便我可以继续追求我的终身梦想成为警察。
一个新的想法：耳蜗植入故事
在early 2003, I met with Dr. Miyamoto (that’s him in the photo above) and his team at the IU-Riley Hospital in Indianapolis, where I went through a testing and evaluation process in order to ascertain whether or not I was a candidate for a cochlear implant. This is when I’d first learned about cochlear implants and I did as much research as I possibly could on the science itself as well as on the three manufacturers.
我选择了Med-El出于多种原因 - 其中一个是因为我看到Med-El是一家高度研究驱动的公司，因此您可以期待一个非常可靠的产品，这是非常用户友好的。我阅读了他们如何用“向后兼容性”的新处理器，以便无论您植入何时植入，您将始终能够使用最新的处理器和设备。此外，如果我需要重新植入（由于伤害，疾病等），我觉得Med-El的Atraumaticity对我来说非常重要。
我植入了2003年8月，并在一个月后被激活。在据前面有听证援助的益处，我的初步激活并不像你在互联网上看到的视频那样“生命改变”，因为人们听到第一次是我的听力更像是“调整”” of my current map was so far off that my beautiful wife’s voice sounded like Donald Duck and it was so grating to me. I had high expectations when I walked in that morning and left feeling very disappointed.
幸运的是，我的听力学家很棒，在我发现一个映射策略的时候，我的大脑习惯了新的信息方法。我在第一年挣扎着它，但通过定期在我的康复（语音疗法等）上努力与该计划陷入困境。春季的某个时候，我似乎有一个“a-ha！”瞬间和一切刚刚点击到位，从那以后，我的植入物就完成了很好。
“The Cochlear Implant is an Amazing Device”
拥有植入物让我作为一名警察蓬勃发展，我努力，每天都是我能成为最好的警察。我一直是一名警察，现在已成为14年的一年，并被选为七次的官员（两年为年度教育家/公共信息官）。我已经领导了多年的活动（逮捕，癫痫发作，违反行为等），同时将特殊的作者视为FDA检查员并作为枪械讲师。我现在完全独立，因为我的CI帮助我更准确地了解了无线电流量，同时我正在巡逻，让我能够与我服务的公众更好地沟通能力。我目前是一个枪支教师，并认证教授手枪训练，霰弹枪训练，少致死的训练和巡逻步枪训练，这恰好是我最喜欢的。我也是evo教练（紧急车辆行动），我最近成为一名高级教师，在那里，我教授希望成为如何成为教师的教师的老将警察。我的CI给了我所需要的信心，以便与大量的人交谈，其中许多我以前从未见过的人，并有效地向他们沟通特定课程，同时有效地回答他们的问题。
My cochlear implant has afforded me the ability to function as well as any other hearing person functions. I used to be dependent on others for help when it came to hearing-type tasks, such as phone communications. With my OPUS 2, I can use my FineTuner to discreetly switch to the telecoil and listen on the phone in extremely noisy environments where hearing people can’t (i.e.: during our Super Bowl details in downtown Indianapolis, other Officers looked to me to run information with Dispatch on the phone since it was so loud and I had no difficulties doing so since I could tune out the noise). The cochlear implant is an amazing device and its ability to help is astounding.
One thing I think everyone should know about my CI (and anyone else’s CI, for that matter) is that it is not a simple “plug and play” device like a new TV or like a new toaster. It is a complex technology that provides me with the miracle of hearing, and it takes time and practice to be able to use it as effectively and accurately as I do. This training never ends and if you don’t adhere to a specific training regimen, you will not be able to experience all of the benefits that a CI has to offer.
Even though you never stop training, the rewards in hearing well are substantial and worth every effort.
Thanks, Chuckie!
