Wicked!!!................

On Friday, November 7th, Raymond & I decided to take a day trip to the Miramichi to visit some relatives. We have not been "up home" for quite a while, so it was due time. It rained the whole time, but a nice trip in overall.

Down in Napan, we dropped in to visit Grammie B. first and she certainly was surprised to see us and very happy too. Stayed for two hours with her. I am excited to say this part... so may as well spit it out now. In the past few years, I have had alot of difficulty to carry on a conversation with Grammie as I was not hearing her as well as I did in the past. Plus she was not talking clearly with me like she used to, and she kept turning her head down or away from my line of vision. She is 92 years old now, so it is part of her aging process.

So hearing her on this day was the first time with my CI, and to my complete surprise, I was able to hear her voice really clearly. I had forgotten on how low she spoke. We had great conversation for the entire two hours and I enjoyed every minute of it. Raymond really enjoyed this too, as it was his first time to hear her voice with his CI. He found that her voice was much clearer than what he heard with his old hearing aid. He said it was less work to listen to her now.

At Grammie's house, I went upstairs for a minute and I heard something off a distance and recognized it to be a clock ticking. So I set myself to find it and it was in Grammie's bedroom on the wall and man-oh-man, it was loud!!!!!! I was so amazed at the loudness of it, and thought to myself, "How in the heck can Grammie sleep with that thing running???" It is much louder than the one I have here at home. I told Grammie about my wee adventure upstairs and she laughed so hard.

Next, we visited my grandfather down in Napan Bay for a couple of hours. I was able to hear his voice clearly as well, but he runs his words together, or more like mumble to me, so I had great difficulty in understanding him at times. Raymond had no problems at times, but had to struggle couple of times to really listen to him. Papa is 89 years old.

After Papa, we visited Aunt June for almost 3 hours.....when we get together, we can talk up a storm! I never really had any problems talking with June, but this time around, I was able to hear her voice more than before... so it made the conversation flow much easier.

Next pit stop was to visit Uncle Garth, but nobody was home, so off we go to visit Uncle David.... and this ended up as our last pit stop. Aunt Linda and I stayed in the house, while Raymond and David went into the men's garage, ya all know what that means. It was so funny, I just realized this AFTER the visit, more likely on the next day that Linda still continued to speak to me in her "higher than normal" volume after so many years of talking to me loudly. I guess it is a habit she soon will need to learn to adjust with me. I am sure she's the first one, but she won't be the last one.

So after seeing my relatives for the first time with my CI, made me realize it is a wonderful gadget! It works, and it is certainly SO worth it. I was extremely happy to hear Grammie's voice again so clearly. It "almost" brought tears to my eyes.

While thinking about up home.... and I felt like I was in a "timeless" zone... you know what I mean? Time stood still for a couple of years. Honestly! Things have never changed at Papa's house. I am pretty sure I have not been in the house for at least a year and half, and I felt like the last time I visited there was like a month ago. I took a "peek" in Grammie Sweezey's bedroom and nothing in there has moved or changed since she passed away 2 years ago. Just by looking in that room, you would think she was still around. I really miss her lots! :(

Ah, I am getting nostalgic.... so better end this before I bore you to death..... ;)

Until next time.....