What a day! Goodness gracious me! Two down and one to go.. Let me explain.. from the beginning, always the best place to start a tale.. are you sitting comfortably, then I'll begin.
Old scary day rolled in to town, aka deepest Knightsbridge, and into our life at the hideously early hour of half past seven.. ugh.. she got up, I was pretty reluctant to do so, I must admit and was very slow to clamber out of my night-time house.
But the thought of an egg cheered me up greatly and so our day commenced. Coffee, egg, rye toast were all made and consummed. Then off we went to the bathroom, her to wash and dress and me to play the fool, as you do when your blood sugar is raised up again from near starvation level.
Off to the Marsden she went, sliding through their doors on the dot of nine of the morning clock.
"Bless and thank you Debbie Goaty Mum for that text, it sure did take the 'edge' off that waiting".
We have already posted the happy news related to this, so if you haven't done so, go back and read the previous post if you want to know what transpired.
Home for lunch! She had been told to allow four hours for the Breast clinic but she came skipping down the steps at just after eleven of the clock. It was the skipping that alerted me to what had happened, she called to me, I flew down the hall, landing on her head and gave her a proper going over, as you do to people who have been given great and very happy making information.
Scummy light lunch, a little bit of a doze and she went off to the Audiology dept to pick up her new hearing aids.. yes.. she wears two.
This department is FULL of the most wonderful, highly trained staff. Today it was pretty Emma who tested her with all sorts of new and highly sensitive equipment, it wasn't just to see what she did or didn't hear, the latter lot of tests were to determind the level of sound that the hearing aids would hear when they were in position just in the ear canals.
And armed with this information, she programmed the receivers to the correct level. Then Emma asked her to chose which colour base she wanted. Then came the big surprise! For she, thank goodness, no longer has to wear a big, fat ugly plastic moulded earpiece in her right ear, both ears now have two skinny little wires with highly sophisticated receivers that are worn sitting in the ear canal.
She was with Emma for over an hour! And these machines are amazing.. much more advanced than her old ones, which were over five years old and no longer able to deal with the amount of hearing loss she has experienced.
These new ones have three levels of sound and three levels of technology. The first level allows her to hear normal speech, the second is magic in that, if she is in a restaurant, it will cut out all the background noise and the third is the Loop system, you may have seen this in banks and other public places, it is in theatres and cinemas and it is like have your own secret sound system.
But the reallyreally best thing is NOT having to wear that big old ugly earpiece anymore. Oh, it did make her feel SO old and she hated it. Now she has these two tiny wires and she's good to go, she'll surely be able to hear a mouse fart, for on the way home, she heard the birds singing. Oh, such a sweet, simple pleasure, sniff.. excuse me.. I'm just a little bit wet-eyed.. in fact, we both are.
For just like when Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers sang "Well, goodness gracious me" we're happy and we're especially happy to be able to tell friends good news, so please let's hear it for those highly qualified and hard working medics, of all specialisations, who support us allover the world.
Now she's wired up for sound like a spy, aka Caruthers MI5, sadly she has forgotten the joke of which this is the punchline, and on April 21st, we'll deal with that old MRI.. yeah!
GeeGee Parrot.
March 25th, 2015.
Old scary day rolled in to town, aka deepest Knightsbridge, and into our life at the hideously early hour of half past seven.. ugh.. she got up, I was pretty reluctant to do so, I must admit and was very slow to clamber out of my night-time house.
But the thought of an egg cheered me up greatly and so our day commenced. Coffee, egg, rye toast were all made and consummed. Then off we went to the bathroom, her to wash and dress and me to play the fool, as you do when your blood sugar is raised up again from near starvation level.
Off to the Marsden she went, sliding through their doors on the dot of nine of the morning clock.
"Bless and thank you Debbie Goaty Mum for that text, it sure did take the 'edge' off that waiting".
We have already posted the happy news related to this, so if you haven't done so, go back and read the previous post if you want to know what transpired.
Home for lunch! She had been told to allow four hours for the Breast clinic but she came skipping down the steps at just after eleven of the clock. It was the skipping that alerted me to what had happened, she called to me, I flew down the hall, landing on her head and gave her a proper going over, as you do to people who have been given great and very happy making information.
Scummy light lunch, a little bit of a doze and she went off to the Audiology dept to pick up her new hearing aids.. yes.. she wears two.
This department is FULL of the most wonderful, highly trained staff. Today it was pretty Emma who tested her with all sorts of new and highly sensitive equipment, it wasn't just to see what she did or didn't hear, the latter lot of tests were to determind the level of sound that the hearing aids would hear when they were in position just in the ear canals.
And armed with this information, she programmed the receivers to the correct level. Then Emma asked her to chose which colour base she wanted. Then came the big surprise! For she, thank goodness, no longer has to wear a big, fat ugly plastic moulded earpiece in her right ear, both ears now have two skinny little wires with highly sophisticated receivers that are worn sitting in the ear canal.
She was with Emma for over an hour! And these machines are amazing.. much more advanced than her old ones, which were over five years old and no longer able to deal with the amount of hearing loss she has experienced.
These new ones have three levels of sound and three levels of technology. The first level allows her to hear normal speech, the second is magic in that, if she is in a restaurant, it will cut out all the background noise and the third is the Loop system, you may have seen this in banks and other public places, it is in theatres and cinemas and it is like have your own secret sound system.
But the reallyreally best thing is NOT having to wear that big old ugly earpiece anymore. Oh, it did make her feel SO old and she hated it. Now she has these two tiny wires and she's good to go, she'll surely be able to hear a mouse fart, for on the way home, she heard the birds singing. Oh, such a sweet, simple pleasure, sniff.. excuse me.. I'm just a little bit wet-eyed.. in fact, we both are.
For just like when Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers sang "Well, goodness gracious me" we're happy and we're especially happy to be able to tell friends good news, so please let's hear it for those highly qualified and hard working medics, of all specialisations, who support us allover the world.
Now she's wired up for sound like a spy, aka Caruthers MI5, sadly she has forgotten the joke of which this is the punchline, and on April 21st, we'll deal with that old MRI.. yeah!
GeeGee Parrot.
March 25th, 2015.
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