Worrying occurance

I had a bit of a worrying occurance yesterday. I was hoovering the carpet in my car (something VERY infrequent I must add!), and then, when I came out, all of a sudden, I started hearing very loud, rustling sounds through my CI implant. It actually sounded similar to the sound one gets when one moves something against a microphone, and this way I realised it was my hair against the microphone. Uhoh, I thought, something is wrong here. I don't normally hear my hair against the mike. Moving along I heard the movement of my specs arms against the headphone too. Worrying me now. My neighbour was using his hoover too, and it sounded muted, strange. I turned my speech processor off, and turned it on again. The rustling disappeared, but sound still sounded muffled. I stifled the feeling of panic and went upstairs, and spoke to Mandy. She sounded quite faint. I tried using the plug in cable from the TV, and that sounded ok, so I assumed it's something wrong with the microphone.

So, I unplugged the headpiece from the speech processor, removed the microphone cover, and dusted off both the inside as well as the mike cover itself. I put everything back together, and, it was working! Phew!

Moral of the story - even though speech processors are pretty hardy, you really must take care of them. Better, take them off when doing dirty work!