Charlotte and her hearing.

Alright, some of you have already heard but on Monday Charlotte's audiologist did a hearing test and said that currently her hearing is at 20-30 decibels. FANTASTIC. With her hearing aids, the best she could get was between 40-45 db. About 2 weeks ago, she heard Aunty Crystal's phone ring. She loved it and would talk and talk and talk on the phone (look at the video a few posts back for a cute example). About a week later, she started turning to her name again. A few days later, soft sounds were audible to her. And then the good news on Monday where her hearing levels are. The above chart is called an Audiogram. Left to right is frequencies or pitch. (think of music). So the left side is the lower sounds and the right is the high sounds. Top to bottom is essentially volume. So the top of the audiogram are the soft sounds and the bottom are loud sounds. You can see that the majority of the sounds are between 20-50 db. They call this the speech banana (hence the shape in the audiogram). So for Charlotte to be right in the middle is a miracle. There's a lot more tweaking of the CI and a long road for Charlotte to develop speech but we are so happy with how things are going. The Lord truly has been in control this whole time and I am so thankful for that.