Spring Sprint

Saturday, June 25, 2011

June 25, Saturday

Well I cannot believe it has been couple weeks since I have been on this blog but the weather was sooo bad it was depressing and then this past week we had sun every day and I had a list a mile long of things that needed doing ................... today , Saturday and wet again so getting caught up on some inside jobs .....
Well first for Adrienne, the day after seeing you I switched to program 2 and have been there ever since ...I had the sound lower at first but now right up at the middle level and it is great . I am picking up a lot more sounds now ...like I can hear the keep pads as I am typing and I did not hear them before .................... 
Last week I went to have dinner at a friend's home and there 5 guys invited. We used to spend most Thursday nights together on our boat years ago. We had not been together for over a year . They were amazed at my CI and how well it worked . Now on a one to one -- I got it all --sitting out on the deck in a group --I knew when someone spoke but not always what was said and when all talked it was a lot of noise but when I explained to the guys --one fellow said -- Hey just hearing the noise must be pretty awesome and it is ..........
This week I did get out for a short hike with Rick and as we were walking back down the trail I could hear the birds in the woods and it was so neat -- 2 months ago I did not hear them ......
I had a lot of work to do outside this week and so I hooked up the MP3 player in my phone and it plugs in direct to the CI and I had music playing steady all day ..... it was awesome for me and I find that when I repeat the same  songs over and over that I get a better understanding of the words ........................ 
I am just loving this whole new experience in my life .............
Have a great weekend ............................. Chris 

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Wednesday June 8th

Sun, Sun & more Sun .all day . I loved it .... Bring it on Baby ....
 Bring it on !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Ok enough foolishnish.... I just made that spelling up ....


I went to see Adriane  my Audiologist today and we did some testing as my Doctor is going on a conference and he wanted some  info on test results ...... so we did  some words , some sentences and some sounds --- Adriane said " Chris , I could just cry .... You did so well !!!" .....  Now she did have the volume up louder than normal but still I did pretty good --- my sounds are still in the mild section and we need to raise this up and the way to do it is by increasing the volume on my CI .... so today I had volume up a bit higher but most of the day was in the car and that is noisy -- tomorrow louder again .. then Friday up to channel 2 and that is now programed a bit louder than #1 .... 
6 months and I feel like I have come so far ---- there are still people and situations that I cannot understand but I am getting better at knowing and handling this ...... on we go .....
lets hope for more sunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn tomorrow .. Chris