How is CI Hearing Different?

From an online friend:
How does the implant hearing compare to hearing with your own native hearing structures?

well, the hearing is very different, especially at first. The auditory nerve is being stimulated by impluses from an electrode rather than by the waving motion of the little hairs in the cochlea, The brain has to figure out what the blazes is going on. It's pretty amazing how fast it figures it out.

Last time, at first, voices were all a high-pitched monotone, but that adjusted over the course of even just the first few days and I could begin to hear some intonation and begin to tell men's voices from women's voices. I've been told I was very lucky and many people do not understand speech on the first day. I did.
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The prayer time at my church was a beautiful time, and a precious gift. Jay invited anyone who wanted to stand by me, lay hands on me, pray for me, to come and join us in the front. The people that came are all people I have also prayed for and loved dearly. The warmth and love and compassion and support standing in their midst was unspeakable.

Thanks be to God!