Kathy has been singing with a "senior" choir at one of the large Baptist churches in Jefferson City. They mostly go to nursing homes. Yesterday they came to our church in Centertown. There are a LOT of them. The also have a quite a few members who play a variety of instruments. I was able to watch part of their performance and they are good. I had to leave early for a Doctor's appointment to follow up on getting some type of hearing aids.
My Doctor's appointment was part of my decision making to determine if I want to get either a Bi-Cross system or possibly a BAHA system. With the Bi-Cross system you wear a transmitter in your bad ear and a receiver/hearing aid in your good ear. The transmitter picks up sound on your bad side and transmits it, via Bluetooth, to the receiver/hearing aid in your good ear. It is supposed to dramatically improve your ability to hear in crowded places like restaurants.
The BAHA system is a "bone anchored hearing aid". They screw a stud into your skull, behind your bad ear. You clip a small receiver on the stud and it converts sound to a vibration that your skull transmits to your good ear. It is a remarkable system! The Doctor had me wear one of the receivers while I was in her office. She used an elastic band to hold it against the side of my head. Almost our entire appointment was conducted while I kept my good ear plugged so that I could only "hear" the "sound" transmitted through my skull. I could hear her with no problems. With this system I would still wear a conventional hearing aid in my "good" ear, since it isn't all that great.
Insurance won't cover any of the cost of hearing aids but will supposedly cover most of the cost ($10,000) of having the stud installed. (Isn't the cost ridiculous. As I understand it they only use a local anesthetic and don't even admit you to a hospital. The little stud looks like a stud/snap on a western shirt.) I'm still investigating.
Lydia came up this morning, after Andy left for work, so that Kelsey could get some extra sleep. We had a good morning and then took a nice nap. We went in and both of us laid down on our bed until she went to sleep. A little angel.
While she was taking a nap I split some wood by hand, I needed the exercise. In the afternoon my helper came out. We took a bucket full of wood from out back and stacked it by the wood boiler. Then we drove the tractor up to the road and got the trash can, newspaper and mail. After that we did some swinging and then had a nice afternoon nap, well one of us did.
The weather was cool today. I don't think it got much above 60. It is supposed to get down into the 40's tonight.
I hope all of you had as good a day as I did. May God bless you and yours.
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