OK, Campers, very good news!! I got my hearing aids and am
just hearing up a total racket!! Life is
grand!! Right now, I can hear the
clacking of the keys on the laptop as I type this. I can hear the newspaper pages crinkle as I
read them. I find myself stamping my
feet just because I can hear my own footsteps.
I can’t remember my hearing ever being this acute. Progress, no stopping it!
I think I mentioned last time that since my right ear is
totally gone, I got what is called a bi-cross system. The left (‘good’) ear has a mostly conventional
hearing aid with a receiver. The right
ear has what looks like a hearing aid
but is actually a transmitter that wirelessly sends whatever it picks up to the
left ear. Sometimes, it’s a little weird,
like if I jangle my car keys by my right ear, I hear it clear as a bell – in my
left ear. But, it’s taking less time to
get used to than I expected. The real
test will be Wednesday when I go to Team Trivia at Gecko’s, which is always a
mob scene.
And something else I’ve noticed, totally unrelated to
hearing. But it seems I am now getting
misty-eyed at the most inane things.
Sitcoms, commercials, you name it – anything with the slightest degree
of poignancy sets me off. The Bright
House Networks commercial First Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiLf9_O9RaY)
is guaranteed to bring tears to my eyes.
But then, it is the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen. . . .
But I think it’s a response to the time when I was in
treatment and until I was declared free of disease. I worked so hard at remaining stoic and not
tearing up that it just caught up to me.
Neither a good thing nor a bad
thing – just a thing.
Well, I’m going to cut it off for now – the racket of these
laptop keys is driving me crazy. . . .
Peace and Love!!!!
Joe
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