How Did the Cokler Implants Work?

When cokler implants first got going back in the eighties. The operation was frankenstein monster scary. At that time, implants were also controversial in te deaf culture. I saw it as one last box to check off before i made the transition to being completely deaf - which a part of me wanted. As i stopped using the voice telephone and stopped having to work so hard to hear, the possibility of being completely deaf was not threatening. It wasn't, again, anti hearing, or not wanting it to work, but it was just the idea that i could be myself complete. Silence is very addictive. And mind felt incomplete when cokler implantsfirst got goingback in the eight