Before the CI party on Friday, Mandy and I were both “blah” and had no motivation to do any therapy. So we did the A-Z word list, and I swear, whoever writes those lists comes up with the most RANDOM things that I have ever heard of, just to have a word for that letter.
Then it was time for the CI party, which you can read about here! After that, I went to Target with Jen C. While in the car, we were listening to the radio play, and I understood “twenty thousand” on the radio! We were wandering around the store, playing with the different toys that made noise, and I just had a blast, especially in the Halloween section.
When we left Target, it was so windy, that we were having a hard time walking outside. I looked up just in time to see a seagull fly right smack into a light pole. It fell straight to the ground, wings outstretched. The other seagulls came back to check on him, but he was already up and hopping around. He then started to do this run/hop so he could fly away, but without much luck. I felt so bad for it, and wanted to help it, but Jen said there wasn’t anything that we could do. So we left after making sure it was okay. (Yes, I have a bleeding heart for saving animals that are hurt or abandoned.)
I’m not sure if I heard the seagull before it hit the pole, or if I just happened to see it. It would be interesting to know if the CI alerted me to it or not.
Saturday, Kyle was willing to go with me to the Haunted House at the very last minute. We got there, and we waited in line to go in. I could hear the differences in the laughter, and was hearing several things that I couldn’t hear with the hearing aid. The clarity of the sound was what really struck me as opposed to the HA. As for my review of the Haunted House, it was a bit overpriced, but it was fun and they had some really creative rooms that I enjoyed (especially the first room with the couch, the execution room, the flying corpse in the graveyard, the car with the horn, and the dark tunnel with all the flashing lights, distorting your vision/sound). The rattling morgue doors is what scared me, because they made such a racket, and that’s one fear that I’ve had when exploring abandoned places/seeing pictures of abandoned places.
Anyway, I absolutely LOVE haunted houses ever since I used to go with my dad on the weekends to school, where the dads would build the Haunted House for the Elementary School’s Halloween Party. I would get to play with my classmates, while they were at work, and sometimes we got to help out.
After that, Kyle and I went to a fraternity party that I had been invited to. I had such a blast meeting and talking to all of these people from different schools in the area. The one thing I noticed was that some people started fingerspelling their names to me. I don’t know if it was obvious that I had a hearing loss, or if they just figured it out because it was so loud and noisy in there. Either way, it was cool, and I have some new friends.
But one of the best things that happened during the party, was that I was talking to people, and struggling to understand them because it was so noisy with the chatter and the music playing, and I suddenly recognized the song, and it was Crazy Town’s “Butterfly”. I was SO excited, because that is one of my top favorite songs, and to recognize it at a house party is awesome!
Today, I worked on the lab with Jen A., and while sitting in the kitchen, I heard this weird noise. It sounded musical, but kept coming and going. Jen told me it was the wind howling outside, to the point where it was whistling. It bugged me that I could hear it with the HA, but not really with the CI. What’s up with that?
Mandy says I should get an earmold for the CI, because it would help it to stay on my head. This would have come in handy while working on the lab, because the CI kept falling off my ear while I was laying on the floor, taking pictures. Finally, I just took it off, because I couldn’t hold the camera steady AND keep my CI on.
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