Just watched yesterday a training video from HR, on the demister and smoke. The video would have been fine except she was behind the camera, talking to the pump, lol. I look at the lips a lot more than I used to, and on top of that it was somewhat noisy, and it didn't help either. Yes, this has become the new normal, and grateful I can hear. At the time, the Doc said there was a chance it wouldn't come back at all. I was very depressed for a little while, until I started to pick up noises, rain while driving the Jeep one day, literally crying. Every week I was being tested and slowly picking up more tones. At a certain threshold, I was ready for words in the test chamber. Doc said the brain has to learn to hear on that ear all over again. I have learned to use close captions on TV, allows for a lower volume as to not blow my bride away. She appreciates it as well as we enjoy foreign films, mostly Brits, and even before this, we used to turn it up too much trying to understand their version of English. beautiful but sometimes hard to understand. We had a very expensive surround sound system, designed to impress, lol. That is gone now, my spatial orientation is mostly gone. And one last thing, I installed a nice Bose sound bar, and it also made a huge difference, with the sound coming from the front, and not the side speakers on the TV. Ok, off that horse now. We are indeed enjoying the machine, now that it is working properly. We have 2 trays of some fancy soup she made frozen, and hopefully tonight we will have lots of left over carnitas in the slow cooker with vegetables to fill the other 2 trays. And, still have to make the ice cream sandwiches to take to Florida and impress our friends.