While Chance was driving he handed me both implants and told me to switch the batteries as the implant that had died was his right one which is the one that was facing me in the passenger seat. He told me to switch the batteries so that he would be able to hear me.
That was the last time he remembered seeing both implants. Chance went right in and went to sleep.
Chance woke up on Saturday morning, and couldn't find his right implant. At first we thought it would just be a few minutes before he located the lost implant which had most likely fallen off while he was sleeping.
Chance was quite troubled that he could not find his implant and was not satisfied with just wearing one. He spent a good chunk of Saturday looking for that implant. By Saturday night, his dad was even offering a reward to anyone who found it.
Sunday morning we all went to church and Chance was still running on one implant. As luck would have it, one of Chance's siblings was slow getting ready so we were a few minutes late which meant we had to sit in the back. Today was a meeting called Stake Conference (including about 10 individual congregations) that is held every 6 months so there were more people than normal trying to fit in the overflow seating area. And as luck would have it, the speakers were out in the back of the church and as technical people tried to fix the problem, my little deaf boys were hearing nothing. I was having a hard time hearing since we were so far back and every time a baby cried, or someone moved their chair, it would block out the speaker's voice.
After about 10 minutes, I told Chance's older brother to out in the hall to see if the sound was better out there since there is a speaker by the entrance doors. He came back and said that you could hear a lot better out in the hall, so we started moving in that direction. Once we were out in the hall, one of the ushers told us that they had just opened a meeting room up the hall and that we could go in there. The speakers were fabulous in there! Chance came into the room and his face broke into a huge smile and he sat down in one of the cushioned chairs able to hear all that was being said.
I was really starting to get concerned that Chance would not have both implants for school and then Chance finally found his implant. It was in a Pringles container. That's right, a Pringles potato chip container which was laying next to where Chance fell asleep. Doesn't everyone keep their implant in a potato chip container? If they don't they should:) It is well protected in there and no one will be able to steal it.
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