Well, I finally went and done it - I got hearing aids.  I picked them
up yesterday and am now learning how to live with them.  A few sounds
are surprises.  I didn't know the dining room chairs (swivel type)
were so noisy!  I also will have to learn to speak louder!  That
surprised me.  I have my first meeting at Toastmasters with them today
- that will be fun.  One of the most pushing reason for getting the
hearing aids was that I couldn't hear one speaker and she got the
ribbon for the best speaker of the day!  We shall see.

BTW I don't remember if I told you or not, but I'm planning on putting
some pictures from Spain, Germany, and Ireland that I took in 1997.  I
just checked and I see that there is an empty folder!  :-(  I will
fill it this afternoon.

Well, time to get ready for Toastmasters.  Here we go!

Loujean