Sharon,
This is exciting and wonderful news.  I am praying for more great results.

Virgie and Lady Hoshi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Hooley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:48 PM
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