This morning we were expecting a painter to arrive at 9:00 to discuss a paint job. So we dutifully got up, straightened up, etc. and then I started to put on my CI. Except I couldn't! For 20 minutes I fished around for the magnet to suck onto the implant, Lee helping me for about half the time, but no matter where I moved it there was no "grab." Finally, in disgust, I set it down on the counter and answered the door, deaf on the right side.
We discussed the project and then the painter left and I went back to my CI task. It worked on my second go-round! And it's been successfully hanging where it belongs since then. But what frustration!
I'm getting the hang of listening to my Kindle read while I look at the text. I can now turn the Kindle on and off when I want to and get it to pick up where we last stopped when I get back to it again. I try sometimes to not look at the text, but just to listen. That's difficult for me because I do not understand a lot and then I can't find where I am in the text. So, for now, I think I need both to hear and to read. And there's still a lot I don't know about the Kindle.
But mostly I'm going forward, not backward, so that's progress.
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