Thank you for these postings. I apologize to those who responded to my note for my tardy reconnecting. These are quite helpful.

This is hard for me to evaluate. My wise daughter suggested i make a list of what I'd hope would improve after a CI, and whether those are realistic expectations. One is hearing better in noise. Given the the CI also uses noise suppression algorithms and your comments (and others), I'm not sure I will get a lot of improvement in hearing in noisy situations. Is that the view of others here?

My word recognition scores are likely to improve, just how much is hard for anyone to predict. An audiologist at Mayo suggested I'd likely go from 35% to perhaps 60% and I've others say as in the previous posting, that they've seen recognition scores go as high at 90%. Certainly if these scores improve significantly, I would expect that would help in all situations.

I was scheduled to have the surgery in April, but decided to push that back until I was more comfortable this was the right path. At the suggestion of my long time audiologist (I've moved but stay in touch), I'm trying the most recent generation Phonak and ReSound aids to see to what degree they help.