WOW!

I received my new hearing device yesterday.  Let me tell you, it's a whole new world out there. And a LOUD one, too.
After 3+ months of waiting for the "portal" to heal, the final step was a visit to the audiologist to get the device. This is not your ordinary hearing aid. This is a state-of-the-art device that attaches to a portal that was embedded into my skull behind and above my left ear. My cochlea are both still viable, and this device actually transmits sound waves through the bone to the inner ear to the cochlea. Since my hearing loss was greater in the left ear than in the right,( 5% hearing in left) I am wearing the device mounted on the left. Because both cochlea are still viable, sound is transmitted to both and even tho I have no device on the right, it will retrain my brain to hear from both ears.

For the first time, I was able to talk to my youngest grandson and hear what he said back to me very plainly. I met him and my daughter-in-law as they were leaving Nursery School and he ran to me saying "There's my papa!"  My heart swelled! Then he told me "cool hat, Papa!" Made my day.

I had no idea how loud the air coming through the heat vents was, how much I could hear trains from my living room, how loud the wind chimes that hang outside my veranda were. My refrigerator sure is noisy and so is traffic along the state highway that runs past the end of my street.  Birds actually do chirp and I can now lower the volume on my TV from 96 down to 30 on the sliding scale of 0-100.  I had to tell the audiologist and my daughter (she came home just to go with me) that they were talking entirely too loud.

This is going to take some adjustment and is somewhat overwhelming, but wonderful. I will be able to rejoin my church choir and my quartet can start singing again. (They have been waiting on me) and do all the things I want to do with new confidence.

This has to be God's work. Man was given the ability to advance technology this far.  Hallelujah!

Until next time,
Peace,
JE