Helicopters and jackhammers

Yup, there was a helicopter flying overhead.  Since it made several passes over my apartment, I wondered what was going on.  Never did find out, but it was cool to guess the sound correctly.  However I misjudged where the jackhammer was, thought it was just beside our building, but it came from the construction site just down the road.

My facial twitching is going away at this setting for program two, which my audiologist said was a very strong map.  Some voices trigger it, but it is not easy to pinpoint what it is.  Hey I just noticed something...when I trigger three keys at once, my computer beeps at me.  Now that's a new one! (Update: Now I can't make it do it anymore...very strange)

This post didn't make the midnight deadline, as it was too fun to listen to my music, read the blogs, do some listening exercises.  Study Dog is a free program that uses a woman speaker quite a bit of the time, and that's why the conversations were hard for me to decipher.  There's no visual clues, but that doesn't break me from focusing on the cartoon character's face as if there'a way to lip read these guys!  It really is exciting to pick up more of speech, the difference is very noticeable.  I just remembered this is the map with the 70 IDR that's on my body worn processor.  This one is going on my Auria at my next appointment, that's for sure.

During my writers' group meeting today, it was easy to follow along with the author who read outloud.  My attention was focused on the paper.  Sometimes I stopped and jotted a note on their paper and then started listening to see where they were and finding my place.  Pretty awesome, and these folks are so unaware of my joy at being able to do this.  Another thing taken for granted by hearing people...you know.

This cochlear implant is awesome...what a blessing....what a miracle.  Thank YOU, Lord.