Mobile phones

About 2 weeks ago, I went fishing with a friend. Since I didn't know where his boat is berthed, I smsed him to tell him I'd arrived (at the unearthly hour of 515am) in the meeting point we'd agreed. He didn't reply so I rang on his mobile and hung up. Shortly after that, I heard the phone ring. I hesitated (since I'd not used a mobile phone for conversations) and then muttered, what the hell.. and answered it. And.. for some reason, it was clear as a bell. I arranged to meet my friend, Mark, and that was that! I've been using my mobile quite frequently recently. It's not always clear, I don't always understand everything, but just imagine, just a year ago I was quivering in my boots, waiting for my operation, not understanding a thing from my poor, destroyed ears!

Just when I thought I'm getting no more improvements...

I'm in Holland again and was on a bus this morning going to work. And I heard something that even 3 weeks ago was inaudible to me - the click of the indicator on the bus. This is *very* faint to the point that a hearing colleague of mine could barely hear it, it was so faint. I also picked up the sound of the bell which is also quite a faint 'squawk' sound.

It's amazing that even after 10 months I'm seeing change.

A tip..

It might be common sense for some.. it *is* common sense now I know about it, but it's best that I explain a trick I found out last week when I visited the hospital outpatients last week.

I had complained that it is fiddly to take off the speech processor, press the two buttons simultaneously, plonk it back on again and answer the phone in a short space of time.

I was shown a very simple (at the same time common sense) manner of doing it - just reach behind my ear, and press the buttons at the same time, and there it goes. It's not foolproof, sometimes the switching doesn't work and I end up in the sensitivity setting or the volume one but at least it works!