Last night we went to the movies. Before my CI, we had almost totally stopped going to any movie theater that did not offer a captioned film. So last night was an experiment. We saw The Iron Lady and both of us were blown away by Meryl Streep's performance. I understood almost everything that was said on screen and a lot of what was said from off the parameters of the screen itself. That was a huge improvement!
Then this morning I initiated a conversation with a stranger in the ladies room at our gym. It didn't occur to me how unusual that was until I was well into the conversation. Then I realized that I had been avoiding conversations like that because I could not understand much of what was said and often didn't want to explain that I had a hearing problem. I felt like I was coming out of my shell. That, too, is progress.
One other observation, on the rong-chang listening practice website, I noticed that some of the stories were being read by the familiar female reader but that they sounded as if she were speaking down a tunnel or through a microphone. They were more difficult for me to understand completely. I needed to listen to some a second time and occasionally even to look at some of the words before I could understand them via hearing.
That's the latest.
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