Last night I am having dinner with Nick and he says .." So what's the matter with you ? all Ok ? " I said i am fine why ?? He said no Blogs for 6 days ?? My answer was well life has been pretty normal and i did not want to bore any one .... but I do have a few things that happened over the last few days so read on :
The other day I stopped for gas . Now I usually always go in side to pay but this day in a hurry so I decided to pay at the pumps -- imagine my surprise when I started hearing all these beeps every time I pressed a button -- oh man it was funny ...so next time you gas up outside, while u are punching in numbers and beeps are going off think of me and have a smile ---
Next , I was out in the woods with my friend Brian and I hear something and i am not sure what it is ? so i ask , what is that noise I am hearing, it is faint but I hear something. It is so quiet in the woods --Brian says --It is a "crow" ... amazing ....a little later in the day my batteries quit so I change batteries and hook back up and say to Brain , Ok say something -- well he mouths all these words but I cannot hear him ...then starts to laugh and says ..oh u want me to say something out loud !!! what a character .....
I have stayed on the same program for past 2 weeks with the CI and as things start to get a bit clearer and less echo's I have turned up the volume. So today I switched up to the next program and the echo's are back but hopefully they will blend in soon .....
Here is what I am noticing when my battery stop -- if I am by myself at home and battery stops some times it tales me a little bit before I realize no noise anywhere . I have been deaf for 12 years so the silence alone is pretty normal ... if battery stops while I am doing something that I hear or I am with someone that is talking I notice right away . There is no warning it just shuts off . What I do notice is that when I take the CI off at night or say to get dressed what a "void" it feels with no sound .....
If I am in a room with 2 people and i talk with one of them , I am ok doing that . then if they talk together I know that they are talking but no idea about what is being said ....so although I hear in that situation I do not understand .....
The other night we went to a movie at theater with open captions --- I have been to OC movies before but this was first time with a CI and I have to say that with the sound and captioning it was all pretty neat and I did understand most of the movie but I had a head ache after it was over from concentrating so much ...
okay , tonight should be an interesting experience for me ... once every two months the local cachers meet at Boston pizza for dinner and chit chat . This will be my first time since I got the CI so should be interesting ..
That is it for today ......hope that you all have a "Good One" .........
And it's always noisy at Boston Pizza, Chris, especially when we have 25 or 30 geocachers swapping tales from the trails! Looking forward to seeing you and everybody tonight!
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