Oh the Wonderful Sounds Mrs. Brown Can Hear...

I have had my new ears for one week! WOW!!! I can't even remember what it was like without them...well, to be honest, I can. Because I have to take them out every couple of hours to give myself a break. It is really overwhelming and I have had a constant headache for a week.

I have been avoiding this entry because I have put a lot of pressure on myself to communicate what it was like to go from hearing the world with half of my hearing to ALL of my hearing...and then some!

So I made a list of things as the days unfolded...some big...some not so big...here goes...

• seatbelt makes a click sound
• raindrops on the windshield
• melody/harmony...never heard it, BEAUTIFUL!
• water splashing on the sink
• ice machine...crushed...yummy
• my kids in the back seat, talking, singing, arguing, all of it!
• my oven timer, even from another ROOM!
• the prelude to the Chuck series has a bunch of background sounds that I never knew were there
• birds chirping
• the sound of the steamer when my dirty chai is being made
• the sound of paper ripping and scrunching
• had to turn down the ringer on my cell phone
• at the park w/ the kids and heard all these adorable little voices w/ wind and falling leaves
• the carousel was annoying loud :)
• music played from the ipod or in the car does not have to be full blast
• people whispering...both ears and from all kinds of distances
• my friends and families voices as they really are...tears...lots of tears...
• the sound of Ally's id tag clinking against her collar (Ally is our chocolate lab...first born)
• annoying talking/noise toys that our family buys for our children! thx grandparents!
• the sound of someone eating a banana...loudly
• my feet hitting the ground as I run...and all the feet around me too, so I don't do that anymore!
• knuckles cracking
• cymbals...you know...like w/ the drums...never heard those before
• zits popping...love that sound :)
• discovered "background" music levels
• cereal hitting the bowl
• hearing people WITHOUT reading their lips and seeing their faces
• egg shaker - thought those were for the people who could not sing but wanted to be on stage ;)
• tv shows w/o captions...and I can hear everything!
• egg shells cracking
• finger nails being clipped...cool sound that goes w/ that gross job
• i never understood why there was keyboard AND piano at the same time, turns out, they are different, layering i think is the fancy/music word
• church/worship/teaching was AMAZING!!!
• hearing my hubby sing, fully and completely, I was a mess, it was/is beautiful! more to come on hearing my man talk and sing...its gonna be a tear jerker...stay tuned!

oh the wonderful sounds...

PS...I have also realized that I AM REALLY LOUD...so I would like to publicly apologize to all of you for my loudness! I AM SO SORRY! WOW...I had no idea! Bad news is...I passed it onto my kids...ugh!!!