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<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0"><updated>2025-07-13T16:22:13Z</updated><id>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/the-news-we-ve-been-waiting-for</id><title>Comments for sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/post/the-news-we-ve-been-waiting-for</title><entry><id>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1612/5228</id><title>Comment #5228</title><updated>2025-07-13T16:22:13Z</updated><author><name>Grace</name></author><link href="https://sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/post/the-news-we-ve-been-waiting-for#isso-5228" /><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Deo gracias!&lt;/p&gt;</content></entry><entry><id>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1612/5227</id><title>Comment #5227</title><updated>2025-07-13T13:09:11Z</updated><author><name>Jon Daley</name></author><link href="https://sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/post/the-news-we-ve-been-waiting-for#isso-5227" /><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;The estimated 38% to 80% was for &amp;quot;soft speech&amp;quot;, I forget the decibel level.  And she went from 78% to 97% for normal speech.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Her left ear remains at 99%.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The worst frequency response was at the 250Hz level, with the higher/normal speech range frequencies were within or close to normal levels.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We had the note about the helix lock so I asked what that was, and she said that this particular company that makes the ear molds are fairly short, and so she always asks for a &amp;quot;extended&amp;quot; version, and she said the helix lock is longer than that, and is appropriate if we were having trouble with it falling out, but we never did, and since it fits so snugly, she would be concerned that we would have trouble getting it out at night.  I don't know if there are any hearing related/non-physical reasons to get the lock...&lt;/p&gt;</content></entry></feed>