My Man Can Hear

My husband has worn hearing aids for 7 years, they stopped working 2 years ago. He refused to go for a hearing test until this week... His hearing is only a few decibels above legally deaf.

Tuesday morning, we came home with new hearing aids, computerized digital customized to his problems. Yes, they cost a LOT OF MONEY...

But.... The Man Can HEAR! Hallelujah!!! he is walking around saying "this house is noisy"   he can hear paper crinkle, brooms swish, refrigerator humming and Hallelujah again, the TV is set on 18 not 52...

I came home from a doctor visit and he met me at the door...

"I heard a plane, I heard a helicopter and a weed whacker... when I went to pour my coffee, I thought I was being attacked and turned around and it was my eggs frying"

there is one problem. Now he is back to making fun of my accent again. Think spider using 3 syllables...  he is back to mimicking every word I say.. and I say Thank you Lord...

Doc said he will have to retrain his brain to hear the words,that the left side of his brain is not talking to that ear and the way to train it is doing his homework, 3 pages of words, that each day I have to read 2 rows of them and he has to repeat them back... we laugh so much we can't breathe. each day he gets a little better.

the good thing is I am getting better at reading. When a person gets older, we stumble looking for the right word. the doc said we should read out loud to ourselves every day... and the more we do it the better trained our words will be.
it is working. when I am reading my kindle, I read a page out loud... at first I stumbled, now I don't.
Of course when I was reading out loud to myself in the examining room while waiting an hour, the people in the hall might have been thinking the person in there must be MAD....and I am MadSnapper

Studies of adult brain plasticity prove absolutely that repetitive auditory stimuli can change the way the brain operates... quote from Auditory Training manual

Canine Christmas 2013 Part 2

2013 Festival Fund raiser is my 5th. 2009 through 2013 are in my labels if you need a dog fix.

My friend Renee is part of an exchange program for Chinese Children. She is a Kindergarten teacher and has 2 small, adorable Chinese boys, age 4 and 6 living with her for a month. While they are with her they are not allowed to speak their language but must speak in English only.

Each night she bathes them in the bathtub, which is a new adventure for them. Clyde the 60 pound dog, is also a new adventure, they have never had a dog. Clyde watches the bath process and every night the boys say.. You bathe dog in tub. Renee explains, dogs get baths in the yard, not the tub. Only boys.

One morning she was in the bedroom and heard loud laughter and giggles coming from the kitchen. She found the two boys giving a bath to the dog in the middle of the kitchen tile by using their apple juice.... the boys, the tile and poor Clyde needed a for real bath.

Canine Christmas 2013

Saturday morning I drove the new Kia to the Canine Christmas Festival 2013. Kia baby had to park in grass and dirt.. oh nooooo

MadSnapper was madly snapping this beauty named Mika. She was so beautiful, I showed the photo to her mom. She said, Can I buy a copy? I said No, but if you give me your email, I will send you all the photos of her. The daddy handed me a Five, I said, no charge, my Friend Rich said, take it and donate to one of the rescues. I took the Five. they loved the 7 photos I sent them.

My friend Rich loves Husky's, these are for you Rich.

This little sweetie above was so sweet, and the muzzle is for training him to walk. I heard HI, how is Jakers (her pet name for Jake) and there at the end of his leash was the Vet Assistant that takes care of our pups.. She said her 6 year old daughter is training this pup.

If Jake would allow another dog in the house, the beauty above that says adopt me would now be on our sofa.. He loved babies, kids, small and large dogs and walked like a dream on the leash. he is at the County Animal Control and his time is almost up...

I found the Beagle rescue and this pup named Skipper captured my heart.. he needs a home to... the Five dollars went in the Beagle Rescue Jar.