Sunday sounds and thoughts

Post activation day 5: Program 2, volume 3 and 4.
Just glad to be home :)
Got up and didn't put implants on until after I was done showering and fixing my hair. That was a nice piece of silence this morning.
Gave Kiernan a bath, and it was quite noisy. He loves splashing.
Went to church (Bryan stayed home, he had a migraine) alone with Kiernan. I had a volunteer transliterator (Thanks Becky!) today as she was in town, so that helped. However, having a kid, no husband present and sitting for an hour doesn't make for a very good transliterator watching experience :) However a couple came and sat behind me and kept him entertained for awhile so I could actually make use of the transliterator. All things considering, he was very good.
I have discovered that any kind of crying, fussing or high pitch sound made by a kid is almost as bad as the plastic sound. It sounds like....screeching metal on metal. That's the best thing I can think of.
The singing of the songs? No offense to ANYONE who reads this, but my brain is just NOT ready to process that yet. Wow.
I'm getting better at detecting male and female voices, however it's still not 100% accurate.
I tried out the Sound and WAY Beyond rehabilitation CD provided by cochlear. I did it for an hour, and am UTTERLY exhausted.
Basically, there's a pretest to help you determine what you listen to. I got 30% right on the pure tone test, 33% right on the vowel test, and 40% right on the consonant test. That was really hard.
Just for kicks, I did the environmental sounds preview, training and test. I got 100% on the training. There were two pictures given, and a sound was played. Of the two, I had to pick which one it was. Then I took the test. There were four pictures this time. This time I got 88% right. It's interesting the very SMALL things that make a difference in how I choose something.
For example, water running and fireworks. At first, they sound EXACTLY the same to me. Then after about a second, I'll start picking up the "popping" sounds of the fireworks, but BARELY. I still mostly here that constant "rush" sound. If I hadn't heard that popping, I wouldn't have know which sound was which.
I had to stop after that, but at least I can see how this DVD will be used. I was so scared, because I thought I had lost it. I was hoping to use it on the plane while flying to and form Chicago, but I couldn't find it. Today, I decided to look for it. We looked EVERYWHERE. I even went through all of Kiernan's toys just in case he got a hold of it. 2 or 3 hours later, we found it, in the pile of magazines. Right smack dab in the middle of it. Weird, but at least I found it. I got it for free with my cochlear implant kits. If I hadn't it would've cost me $90 to replace it, and that's at a discounted rate because I'm a Cochlear user.
Anyway, I'm back at work officially tomorrow, and it'll be fun to see the families again. I am using an interpreter this week just to ensure the quality of information, however, I think after this week, I might be able to get away with no interpreters as long as I can see people's faces when they're talking. We'll see. :)