Lipreading Practice

Ups and downs

22 January 2018

On 5th January I went to London with a group of friends, about sixteen of us.   My heart sank when I saw where we were going for lunch. It was a huge Italian restaurant with no soft furnishins or anything to absorb the noise.  My last excursion to somewhere like this was very unsuccessful, so I wasn’t very hopeful that I would be able to cope.  Imagine my surprise and joy to find that I managed well and could have conversations with other people on the table despite it being a very noisy environment.   I was so pleased!!  My confidence just got better.

I have had a big panic though. On Saturday, about lunchtime, I went shopping and as I was in the lift going down from the carpark someone spoke to me. I realised that I couldn’t hear very well.  I checked my head and was horrified to find I had no cochlear processor there!!   I only had a very few items so did my shopping quickly and began to retrace my steps. I was very fearful. What if I’d lost it?   No sign of it anywhere. Then I began to think back to the morning and I couldn’t remember putting it on.  Maybe it was at home. Fingers crossed.  I arrived home and rushed to the kitchen.  Sure, enough it was safely in its overnight container.  I washed my hair in the morning so hadn’t put it on.  What a relief.

The rest of the week has passed quite uneventfully.

Tomorrow I am off to a convention in Las Vegas and I am hoping that I manage w

On 5th January I went to London with a group of friends about sixteen of us.   My heart sank when I saw where we were going for lunch. It was a huge Italian restaurant with no soft furnishings or anything like that to absorb the noise.  My last excursion to somewhere like this was very unsuccessful so I wasn’t very hopeful that I would be able to cope.  Imagine my surprise and joy to find that I managed well and could have conversations with other people on the table despite it being a very noisy environment.   I was so pleased!!  My confidence just got better.

I have had a big panic though. On Saturday, about lunchtime, I went shopping and as I was in the lift, going down from the carpark, someone spoke to me. I realised that I couldn’t hear very well.  I checked my head and was horrified to find I had no cochlear processor there!!   I only had a very few items so did my shopping quickly and began to retrace my steps. I was very fearful. What if I’d lost it?   No sign of it anywhere. Then I began to think back to the morning and I couldn’t remember putting it on.  Maybe it was at home. Fingers crossed.  I arrived home and rushed to the kitchen.  Sure, enough it was safely in its overnight container.  I washed my hair this morning so hadn’t put it on.  What a relief. I cannot tell you the panic I felt!

The rest of the week has passed quite uneventfully.

Tomorrow I am off to a convention in Las Vegas and hoping that I manage well.  Here’s hoping!!

 

ell.  Here’s hoping!!