Hello and Merry Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa!
I hope you enjoyed the Christmas letter. This is the one we sent to all our friends and family. It truly has been an amazing and eventful year and we are grateful for God's continued presence in our lives,as well as our many family members and friends.
I had my one month (or closer to five weeks) check up with my audi Jennnifer today and I feel like doing some bragging. I took another hearing test in the sound booth and scored in the 30 decibel range - meaning I could hear sounds in that range. . Rememeber, with the hearing aid I was around the 50-60 range, and without it I was in the jet engine range - over 1oo! Then I did some word testing in her office and got 84% percent correct, followed by sentence recognition in which I got 100% correct! Jennifer was pretty happy. Me? I was playing it cool while trying not to burst out laughing with pride and joy. I can't emphasize enough now how glad I am for getting the implant. And I get kinda giggly thinking it still might or should get even better in the months to come. It is simply amazing if I can say so myself.
Jennifer also "mapped" the processor again, and things sound ever so slightly better. My everyday program is working well with most of the environments I am in so we did not add any new programs. I probably will at my next session in a couple of months just so I have options if I want to try them - if they are there I may as well take advantage of them and see if I like them or not. For example I could have a t-coil mix which would allow me to use the t-coil (telephone or microphone switch) but still hear sounds around me.
In the meantime - Merry Christmas! If God blesses you half as much as He has blessed me, you are sure to receive a huge bounty of blessings!
Take care,