Fraying cords

My CI cord is fraying AGAIN. I go through 2 of these a year. I just emailed my audiologist who tells me I'm now out of warranty (I think I still have a year to go) so I have to order it direct through Cochlear Ltd and the cord is $235!!!! And I need 2 a year!!! PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

Captioning

Someone asked me why wasn't my CI activation video captioned. I was a bit stunned, why hadn't I thought of it earlier!!

A fellow CI-blogger has written instructions on how it can be done so now it's just finding the time to do it.

I do love coming across other people who leave comments about their CI success :)

Mobile phone

Someone called me on my mobile yesterday, someone I don't know very well. I thought I struggled, he thought I did fine but I have a feeling that he was being nice :P
But later I rang a friend who I understood perfectly... but I was so taken aback by the greeting "Nikki!" instead of hello, hahaha. I need more practice with it, so much stuff completely throws me out!

Music

I am SO pleased to recently discover I am learning song lyrics from just listening to the song, rather than my usual trick of having the lyrics up as it plays on media player!! WHOOOO, go CI!!

Mobile phones!

Short version:
I have a Next G phone! Now everyone can call me!! YAAAY FOR USING A MOBILE!
(oh yeah, i have video calling now too)

Long version:
Went to the shops... there are 3 phone shops right next to each other... for all the complaints you hear about Telstra, it was the only full shop.
I waited 45 minutes to be served, thats how busy they were!

So when I finally got served, I had to explain I have the CI so I needed a NextG phone and I'd like to test it out to see if it worked. The guy was very young so I expected a bit of attitude or confusion at the least but he seemed to know exactly what I meant and pulled out a handset for me, set it up and told me to go outside the shops where he called and spoke to me and asked about interference. I tried 2 phones but sticking with the Nokia (mmm nokia).

And he was very helpful about plans because I explained I had no idea what my call usage was going to be, not using voice calls before and asked if it would be a problem to change... so he's got me some sort of deal where I can interchange plans with no problems if my call usage is high!

What a great helpful guy, I might write a letter :P

So I have called Mum, Garth (who said "is that it? thats why you've called, to say you can hear on the phone?") and Dane! YAAAY. I have to try and speak normally and not yell into it, haha

Point of this entry:
YAAAY PHONE CALLS!!!

Behind my back

The other day, Dane was giving me crap and said something behind my back. He actually acted surprised when I turned around and hit him, he even said "Oh thats right, she can hear now" HAHA.

Hair

And now for a girly paragraph about my hair. The bit where they shaved it off for the CI has grown quite a lot and with the haircut, its now all the same length again. Only that one part is TWICE AS CURLY. I thought it was just the length of it making it curly but nooooo, its because it'd been shaved off. How on earth does that work? That means that part of my hair is going to be an absolute bugger to straigten for the rest of my life! ARGH!

Not so good in noisy places

Unfortunately, I still suck in noisy situations, as demonstrated at dinner on Tuesday night. It's like being back at square one, I have so much difficulty understanding anything.

TV

I watched What About Brian last night (after last week where they found out one of the kids is deaf) and they ARE researching cochlear implants. This is going to annoy the hell out of me, I wanted to slap the character when he said "I've done research on the internet and deaf people are against it". They are against it because of their culture which isn't really applicable to someone in a hearing family.

Talking about CI's, I had someone totally random call me at work and I helped them. YAAAY!!!

Even more phone!

I just rang my audiologist to make an appointment and I could tell the receptionist is new because she had no idea who I was (there are 2 receptionists and both know who I am) and I don't think she ever heard of a CI before, rofl. So it was really funny trying to explain what I need her to tell my audiologist ;)

I rang a restaurant today to get a menu faxed to me for a work lunch tmw :) Awesome

When I was at mums the other day I answered the phone thinking it was Garth coz I told him to call me and it was someone else ringing for mum, oooops. But I managed and the person rang mum again later and she thought I did great on the phone. I'm glad she thought so because the only thing I didn't catch out of the whole conversation was her name, lol