Oh Sharon, I'm delighted, delighted, delighted for you!
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Carol
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From: "Sharon Hooley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:48 AM
Subject: DINNER IS READY.
> This title is the clearest, very first statement I heard with the
> processor, without my hearing aid! I'd taken my hearing off after I came
> home and settled into my room late this afternoon. I'd gotten two
> magazines in the mail yesterday. One of them is called Conundrum, which
> has a bunch of puzzles in it. So far, I enjoy doing word searches the
> most. So today, I sat in my rocker, reading each letter of one of them,
> and making many of the sounds I think of that each letter can produce.
> After that I began solving it, still speaking out loud and pronouncing
> some of the sounds. I got sleepy before I finished, so I decided to play
> around with a building set I got with Christmas money. I continued
> talking out loud, about what I was doing. Suddenly, I heard a significant
> amount and type of stimuli that I figured was someone knocking on my door.
>
> "Come in," I called out.
>
> "Dinner is ready." Did she say dinner is ready? I marveled. I asked her
> a little later, with my aid back on, if that was exactly what she said,
> and she confirmed that it was!
>
> More adventures to come!
>
> Sharon
>
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