June 26, 2016
I loved learning all of these milestones.
I always thought my whistle was a fail, until last week.
Lo and behold, I can actually whistle quite well. I just couldn't hear it.
What was once a very faint whistle now sounds to me much like all of the birds I'm now hearing.
I learned to snap in a fort that my best friend and I made from the tall grass in an empty lot near our houses.
That night, after long day of learning to snap, I went home, and went to bed.
I practiced my snapping until I fell asleep.
It wasn't a loud snap, but I was proud I could do it at least a very little bit of a snap with my right hand.
My left hand was another story. I tried, but for some reason, I just could not get my fingers to snap at all on my left hand.
For years, when I would go to bed, I would practice snapping my fingers!
I finally accepted that I was snapping deprived in my left hand.
What a shock to hear what a snap really sounds like!
Not only that, but both hands could snap!
I decided to snap to see what I could hear.
I could hear my right hand slightly snap. Not like I hear it with hearing aids, but exactly like I heard it my whole life.
Nothing.
I did this over and over.
Still nothing.
My left one must fall into the pitches I can't or nearly can't hear.
Now, with the aid of digital hearing devices, I now hear my finger snapping on both hands. *See note below
* I have three residual sounds in my right ear that I can hear in the low tone. These residual did all of the work for me my whole life. My left hand the sound likely falls into the deaf sounds and my right hand must have some of the residual sounds that I was able to sort of hear. Cool stuff now that I understand it all better as time has gone by.