Lisa 2nd audiolist appointment

WOW!! You may be as surprised as I was today!

Up until Wednesday the 8th, Lisa had been tested at 0-4% word recognition (With hearing aids).

There have been no signifigant changes from April until Wedsday the 8th of Oct.

Ok, yesterday they turned on her cochlear implant. To our surprise, she could hear and understand words...

Today we went back. Lisa's hearing improved between yesterday at 9 am and today at 8am.

She improved about 30% or more according to the hearing graph I was shown.

Then the audiologist took her to the same booth to test her hearing.

Lisa was tested using an audio only cd. She was to repeat the words she heard in short sentences. She scored 70% average on word recognition without visual cues.

So face to face talking with you she would do better than that, unless the back ground noise really was interfering...

The audiologist said that many, even most people reach this hearing level with a cochlear implant after 3 - 6 months. So certainly reaching this level has surpassed all our expectations.

God is so good.

The recovery is not yet complete, and Lisa will reach a plateau where it will take her some time and a lot of tweaking to pass. But we've not reached it yet.

Our next appointment is Wed the 15th.

So thanks for praying, and stopping by today.

Tom & Lisa Seward

PS. Her mp3 player hook up is working, and she's trying it out today... :D