Great news from Gainesville from Terry's wife, Donna Marie. There have been some tears shed, and much joy as Terry's life makes a huge shift from deafness into sound:
For an hour they were fine tuning the cochlear via Terry listening
only to sounds on the computer. Unlike most people who get "turned
on", Terry loved (not hated) the high pitched sounds (as if she'd
never heard them before, or hadn't heard them for 40 or more years,
she was quite excited.)
Then they turned the cochlear on in the room itself, and Terry freaked
out at the sound of the computer next to her, her own voice and the
sounds of other voices. Audiologist said "speech is complicated and
takes time." Audiologist then took out kid's musical instruments,
and Terry was particularly thrilled at the sound of the xylophone and
adored the bell.
Look out world! Terry can hear you!!!
Fantastic news. Now Terry can live in a whole new world. I wonder if she will find it exciting.. or exhausting. But which ever.. more power to her!
ReplyDeleteMercy,, this must be too much to bear at first I would think. Wonderful news.
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