This is wonderful news. Are there prospects for her to be able to learn to distinguish words, or is that skill no longer possible.
That’s really amazing.
Wow, that’s great!
I’m severely bending my mind trying to imagine how it must feel for her to hear things for the first time, however… :eek:
Fantastic! Reading this really made my day. 
Wicked. I know the feeling.
My mum got one, she’s been pretty deaf since the age of about 10. It’s a bit overwhelming at first. I remember her saying she couldn’t believe how distracting and intrusive all these sounds are and would turn it down and she’s never worn it constantly.
I think we all read lips more than we realize - I wear glasses from the time I get up until I go to bed, and if I take them off and try to talk to someone, it just doesn’t seem to work (and my hearing is perfectly normal).
That’s super news, Francesca. Here’s hoping your father has a good result, too. It’s interesting that you posted about how your mom was almost hit by an ambulance, and safety was a concern for her getting the hearing aids, after hearing about the raging controversy in the deaf community about cochlear implants and how some of them consider being deaf to not be a handicap.
Wonderful story!
I’m very happy for your family.
Very cool…
Francesca, is the new hearing aid something fancy like a cochlear implant, or just an acoustic amplifier-type device? Hope you don’t mind my asking – I’m just curious for technical reasons how that works.
That’s awesome! glees quietly for you and your mum
Your story made me smile and brought tears to my eyes, as its a topic that hits very close to home for me- I totally grok the concept of hearing something for the first time and how mind blowing of a thought that is…
Congrats to you and your mother, and best wishes and luck to your father as well. Take Care.
that’s fantastic!
just remember not to mumble around them anymore… they’ll hear you!
Now you can ask her for money all the time!
My cousin Rick is profoundly deaf and has hearing aids since an infant.
When he was in his late 20’s, he got a new kind of hearing aid and his first day wearing it, he heard a noise that he couldn’t figure out what it was.
Then he tripped over it.
It was the cat meowing at him for food.
He had never heard him before.
Thanks for sharing.
Your parents both have a lot of sounds to catch up on!
How old is your father, BTW – who you said lost his hearing in his teens? I’m thinking about what changes in music have happened since… and what classic movies your parents can now more fully enjoy.
I’m trying to imagine having watched, say, forty-plus years’ worth of James Bond movies without ever knowing the instrumental Bond theme, or for that matter, the sounds of gunshots, explosions, car chases, Shirley Bassey, etc. To pick just one of a zillion such examples…
That’s fantastic news, thanks for sharing with us?
I’m sure others are curious as well…how is she handling exposure to new sounds like music and people singing? Birds? I’m very curious about that kind of thing…really give people new perspective on how our world works.