It is the Christmas season once again. The Salvation Army Bell ringers were outside the grocery store ringing the bell. I could hear that bell from several feet away as I walked toward the store. I can still hear the grocery carts coming around an aisle and no, no collisions!
I also did some badly needed yard work in preparation for the winter. I cleared out the flower beds of debris, leaves, weeds and put down super fine mulch. I could hear birds but could not tell what kind of bird was calling. It wasn't a cardinal, that's for sure. I definitely know what a cardinal sounds like.
I have no issues recognizing music. Understanding singing on a CD, the radio is still a challenge. Speech discrimination without the aid of captioning is dicey. My brain has learned to tune out certain background noise.
My sound processor goes on just before I leave for work in the morning.
I am still amazed at how deaf I am when I take the sound processor off at night and recharge the battery.
I am still a deaf person with a cochlear implant. But how that cochlear implant has changed my world. Big time!
Hearing is such a gift.
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