Well, I was looking at a friends blog (http://abundantblessings.spaces.live.com/) and she actually made reference to the fact that I had not been tending MY blog...I actually had to click on the link to my own blog on her blog to see how long it has been!! Over a year!!!! Ouch!! Oh well...
Let's see...this last year has been good on the hearing front. I have my own personal Harmony now and enjoying it to no end. I traded in an Auria for it. Right now I am listening to Yanni and enjoying his genius with the keyboard. Sipping some Pinot Grigo and nursing a cold. I have been told not to drink wine when sick (by the doctor ex that I was married to) but what does HE know! : )
I sold my big old house and am currently living in a cute townhouse apartment. Apartment living is new to me, since I have lived in a house I owned for the past 25 years. It's kind of fun...I do hear things I never imagined I would hear! Like the neighbors taking showers! HA!! Interesting stuff! Two days ago we had a big fat white rooster get into our common area. I was just sitting here working on the computer (and yes, I do "work" on the computer that brings in $$..PrePaid Legal!!) lol..just in case you were wondering!! I heard a rooster crowing for the first time in, I would guess, 40 years!! Made me laugh out loud!! Animal control finally showed up to dispatch the poor rooster....he was limping and the apartment manager and I gave each other agonizing looks, wondering if he was going to be "put down". Sigh.
I came downstairs the other day, keep in mind I flew to NY to attend the ALDA convention and flew home four days later..so I had jet lag and whatnot, plus got exposed to a woman sitting next to me on the plane holding a box of kleenex! She knew full well she was exposing us to her germs..and looked guilty. Next flight I take I will take a pill called "Air Borne" that is supposed to protect you from sick people on flights sitting next to you. My friend Roy from Lake Arrowhead told me about it.
Where was I? Oh, anyway, I came down without my CI on...and was walking around and sat down at the computer and put some music on..and I sat there wondering what on earth??? Where was the music? I checked my volume..nothing was muted. I finally figured it out and hightailed it back up the stairs to get the Harmony and regain my hearing. I am normally more alert than that! I barely function without my CI. I feel like I am walking around in chains and weigh a ton when I am deaf. Thinking back, how did I manage 31 years in silence?? I would love to wear my processor 24/7..but that is not very practical.
At the ALDA convention I was talking to one of the new Cochlear reps named "Drake". Nice fellow, we had fun chatting back and forth. He introduced me to this new Bluetooth device that draped over the ear and clipped to the collar. You put it on and flip to the t-coil and "boom" you can hear very well! I can use the over the ear Bluetooth with the T-mic, but I do like the thought of this new one and might buy it.
I am going to move!!! There is more news!! I am going to be a grandmother!! My darling daughter broke the news to me about five months ago. I have been waiting a long time!! My little grandson is due on Dec 12th! I have decided to go ahead and move down to the beach in the San Diego area to be closer. Kind of centering on a town called Carlsbad. My artistic soul is leading me in an artsy area where I can soar with my own art studio and see where that takes me. Don't know if I mentioned this on the blog or not..but I am an abstract watercolorist and am damn good at it!! : ) I have not really painted much since getting my hearing back and am curious to know how my eye might have changed. I will be going from painting in silence in the past, trying to capture lost sound on paper, to painting with music playing. Can you imagine?
Still discovering new music, I feel like I have normal hearing. Of course I know I don't..but for the most part I barely think about this marvelous bionic part of me..it seems so natural! I got into the shower the other day and forgot to take it off...OOPS LOL!! It's all good, my Harmony is water tolerant..meaning I remembered I had it on and took it off and set it on the bathroom counter and continued to create a steam room. No harm done.
It's been a year of changes, being introspective, doing the right thing for myself in many areas. I have been busy with traveling all over the place. Going again in a week to Texas and Maine for family visits. Have a baby shower to attend the minute I get back from Maine. It's going to be at a five star restaurant in San Diego called La Strada...they have the best Italian food!! Very swanky...a fitting place to celebrate the upcoming arrival of my first grandchild. He will be 1/2 Irish and 1/2 Russian LOL...I hope THAT works out!!! And above it all, I am still counting my lucky stars I can hear again...I never dreamed I would hear my grandchild, and now it is going to be a reality.
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