Last night I tried talking on a regular cell phone. It worked!!! With my CI side, I understood what my fast-talking daughter on the other coast was saying to me! Then I called at least another dozen people and understood them all. Yes, each one sounded like Minnie Mouse, but I could comprehend almost all of what each one said. I could not believe it. I am thrilled beyond belief! I feel a new-found freedom.
I was pressed to try the cell phone because my computer system was down, and with it my captioned phones. So I felt I couldn't talk on the phone and I couldn't get the emails I thought were trying to reach me, several of them very important. I also couldn't practice listening. Then I remembered that my audi had said on Friday that for phone use, cell phones would probably work best. So I used my husband's to call him here in the house and could hear him. Then I went on to the greater world. I had trouble stopping!
I had a couple of other newsworthy events yesterday. I walked to the dentist's and I think I heard birds chirping as I was walking. When I was there my dentist donned his mask, of course, and I was able to understand everything he said anyway. I am making amazing progress.
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