Birdsong
I heard birds chirping in the trees opposite my flat today, the first time for years.
The reason - yesterday I was given a new pair of ‘ears’. Well, two new hearing aids.
I sat for an hour in the specialist hearing department at the Heath Hospital in Cardiff, headphones on, watching a computer screen connected with wires to headphones showing complicated graphs recording the pattern of my hearing.
Another test was listening intently, pressing a button when I could hear sound.
I cannot believe the difference. For years I have struggled with my hearing, often sitting at meetings staring blankly at speakers. It made me feel old and inadequate.
Thanks to my recent cataract operation I can now read without a magnifying glass and I hope to have my second eye operation soon - not after a three year wait as I had to for the first one.
That resulted in my ‘going private’. Successful, but expensive, and only two days after the op I had an NHS appointment!
With all the new additions I am feeling like a new man.
Happy to hear the birds chirping.
Thank you, NHS.
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