Finally An Update!!!

I know, I know. I've been lagging behind in my blogging duties. Please, oh please forgive me. Well, today I had an appointment with Meg for tweaking and such. We went through the usual spiel. She asked how I was doing and I told her pretty good. Things are going well, but I'm just not seeing any big changes. She said that's the way it is. An adult brain just takes longer to change and it will be small things over time. Since my brain is old and shriveled up, it's going to take a long, long time!!! Being old does not have too many big selling points, I'm telling you!! After she was through changing my program a little, she took me back to the booth. Of course, I hate the booth. She re-did a test we had done when I was first being evaluated for the CI. It's a recording of a man speaking sentences. I have to repeat what he says. Even if I don't understand the whole sentence, she wants me to tell her any words I pick up or even parts of words. Below is my score from when I was first being evaluated. Notice, I got NO sentences and out of 53 words, I picked up a whopping 3 words. Woo!! I had a score of 5%.




Below is my test from today -- 3 months after hook up. I got a few whole sentences, some where I picked up most of the words, some a few words and still some that I didn't catch anything. However, I got 22 out of 53 words and a score of 41.5%!! Definitely not perfect, but a HUGE improvement!! Meg is a very happy girl!!! Cherri is happy too!!




Here is my audiological evaluation both prior and today. This is listening to the tones. The bottom part with the X's and O's is prior -- bad.....very bad. The top part with the "CI" is from today. Much better!!!!

So, things have really come along, but there's still lots of room for improvement. Keep those prayers coming that it will get betterer and betterer!!

Here are some things I'm picking up ---

We were at the zoo a couple of weeks ago and I heard the pink flamingos grunting. They were so cute!! And as we were leaving, there were some kind of birds squawking. Most of the animals were very quiet.......mostly napping. It was very hot that day and everybody just wanted to lay around.

In the last couple of days, I have realized that I hear the little birds around our house. I don't think I've ever picked them up before!! They are noisy little critters!!

I'm picking up words, phrases and such off of the radio. Music is still not good, but if the people are talking, sometimes I can catch what they are saying. Sometimes it's just a word, sometimes a sentence, sometimes the whole story! You just never know! Numbers still come through really clear. I don't know what it is about numbers!!

I just gave the kitties a snack and I hear them munching and crunching. Lots of lip smacking!!

I was making a stir-fry and I could hear the veggies in the pan sizzling!!

Yep, things have come a long way in 3 months, but there's still a lot farther to go. I just keep hoping and praying that God will continue to open up new pathways in my brain and the fluid issue won't be a problem so that things will continue to greatly improve and sounds and speech will become clearer and I can understand better.

Beep on!!!