Okay. Up early again...
Fbg 7.5
The first reading taken in a week (because of Apple update problems, and I was concentrating on that and some issues surrounding it).
I think that fbg is amazingly good for me since I have not been checking anything.
And that jar of Nutella that was consumed spoonful by spoonful...in my defence daughter from Australia left that behind...but you know what, I did enjoy it
And I did have one other blip...in the fish and chip shop that does fresh caught daily fish, they also make a home made savoury. This is potatoes and herbs in the most amazing batter. I succumbed for the first time this year and got one.
Bad idea. Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed eating it. A piece of heaven. Oh but I felt ill for hours afterwards...too many carbs in the potato.
Otherwise I have been good with my eating this last week, still sticking to my eating routine of last few weeks. But I have been eating a little more.
Now, I need to get back into the 6's again for fbg.
About the other matter. The Apple update on my iPhone that wrecked the compatibility with my cochlear processor. I went to a meeting yesterday with other cochlear implantees. We have a coffee once a month and meet to help each other. There is an audiologist who comes and listens etc to our concerns.
They are mostly older people (I am old too!). The oldest is 86 years old. But they are not technologically competent. They can operate phones and tablets (which is brilliant since we are not of the age where we were naturally brought up with computers), but what shocked me was they didn't realise that it was software update that was causing their processor problems. They thought their speech processors were broken.
I gave the audiologist my written stuff and talked with her awhile. It seems the hospital audiology departments have been innundated with hearing aid users, Baha users, and cochlear users because they all thought their devices had broken down. And not understanding that a phone update by Apple can cause all these diverse problems.
There has been nothing on the web about all this specifically as regards MFi users (hearing aid/cochlear users), except more specialist forums, which most people don't appear to realise are there.
The audiologist couldn't understand why Apple couldn't correct the update quickly. This problem thing is still ongoing a month later for hearing aid and cochlear users, and is still causing problems.
The cochlear speech processor problems confused me initially, but I realised it was the Apple update that same day. So how is the average 80 year old, or even 90 year old (yes the oldest cochlear implantee from my hospital is 94), expected to understand the implications of a very bad Apple update, or what exactly is happening to them when the phone is now ringing at a loud level inside their skulls, when it never did that before. Apparently a lot of people were traumatised over this update.
Yet we need the phone and the app on it to control sound and sensitivity levels and to pair our devices to Bluetooth and to connect to Telecoil and much more.
And I cannot bear to hear unexpected noises or even sound alerts now.
It is reprehensible.
Anyway. I like my new Android to replace the iPhone. It is much better and has different features to help deaf people. All alerts are now silent, coming on to the lock screen, or some I have set as vibrating alerts, which I can feel even when the Android is on a table next to me as long as a part of my body is touching the table. I am very sensitive to any vibration.
Coffee beckons.
Cat wants feeding.
I want my morning nuts...salted cashews are my favourite.
Have a good day. Pouring with rain here. Under bedcovers day I think....
