1 year programming report

I received in the post today the result of my 1 year assessment. (Its not even 1 year til November!! oh well!)

Aided Threshold Assessment:
250Hz 25dBHL
500Hz 25dBHL
1kHz <25dBHL
2kHz 30dBHL
3kHz 30dBHL
4kHz 30dBHL
6kHz 35dBHL


CUNY assessment (lipreading and listening)
condition: 60dB Presentation Level: 70dB 79% correct

BKB sentences (listening without lipreading)
condition: quiet Presentation 60dB 4% keywords correct

I cant compare with my results as I havent got them. Now I have asked and I hoping they will send me copies!!

anyone think of anything else I should have asked??

Most annoying sounds so far in 1st year..

I am thinking back to what sounds annoying me the most since I first switched on..

• Clock ticking away
• James' Blackberry "ping" (It keep make me "jump out of my skin" every time!)
• Pigeons in the garden (I still want to shoot them!!)
• Pen clicking
• sound of "sssssssssssss" (that nearly blew my brain out!)

anyone have any annoying sounds they like to comment??

October Adult day 2009

Friday we decide to meet up for Pizza in Pizza hut in Nottingham. I brought my kids and lisa brought her so they were kept busy eating Pizza, leaving us alone to talk to everyone! It was a good night out, we were not home before 12!

Saturday was the adult's day. We met a few more new faces - Mel and David Walton. I have not met them before. Mel in same boat as me.. an CI user with 2 children and husband! so nice to meet another mum who have children at similar age.
I had another session with Maria. i focus on practise my P, B more and a few other letters like T. making a rhythm game which i can use to practice in car when I am bored... B...B..B...P...P..P..B..P..B..P..B..P it goes!
we also had 15 mins of listening skill practise and I surprise myself on how much I really can hear when speaking slowing focus on everyday conversation. for example..
"how many bedrooms do you have?"
"Pass the salt please"
"the dinner smell lovely"

and many more!!

Cant wait for another session because the more I practise the better I will be with listening and speaking.

Ears foundation will be offering family's day in the new year. so my family will be able get involve and understand how to help me. That's be good.

Wow new one from Connevans

I decide that body Jam and Body balance were bad idea because I keep falling over, so I tried Boxercise. WOW! they keep BOTH my feet on the ground so no more falling over and my balance is ok.

Only problem I have had was that my implant keep come off when I do alot of sit up.. so i looked at Connevans and found this Ear gears..

http://www.connevans.co.uk/store/viewProduct.do?id=1234525

I going try them to see if any improvement...

I ordered it in brown colour.. there were very limited in colours urghh!

Woah trendy colours!

Katie gave me a link, http://www.skinit.com/
This is where you can choose the colour to cover your AB sound processor and make it look excited!
I have order one this lovely design to see if it exciting enough on my sound processor for me! now I have to wait as it being shipped from America.

Family's walk at Stanton moor

Yesterday we went on a short family walk, it was short because I not yet manage to walk far with my bad balance.

we saw the 9 ladies stone circle, at Stanton Moor. Its not how I remember! I thought the stones be taller than that! we walked in a circle for about an hour and half, while James took some pictures of anything interesting.

I could hear the wind and the leaves being crushing by our boots. It was new to be able recognised my name calling outside home by James. He call me alot to tell me stop and look, as I cant see everything when walking because everything goes blurring.

The girls were fast asleep on the way back to Derby, we decided to go Harvester resturant because we could not be bother to cook!