Roger's Hearing Aid Thread

If I really understand the term, yes, but only in the right ear, which has been pretty much written off anyway.

Oh, I kept that gizzerblinker in the high range all day (except for driving) with no problems.

excellent!

New trick. Batteries seem to last about a week. They are packaged with a sticky seal over a set of air holes. I don't know what's going on inside the batteries that requires ventilation, but it seems they are good for about ten days if you cover those holes overnight, instead of about a week.

I also bought one of those that hangs behind my ears, because the doc told me those in-the-ear aids have a tendency to hear one's own voice when talking. My insurance benefit allowed for a budget a $3,500 per ear, but I purchased the pair that cost $3,000 total.

I had to return several times to have it "adjusted." I use it occasionally when I think there will be soft-talkers or too much background noise. It eats batteries like candy. I could use it for a few hours or a for up to four hours, but the battery is dead by the time I use it again - even when I remove the battery from the hearing aid.

I'll be taking mine to Chicago.

Wow. Yours must have a lot of horsepower to eat batteries like that.

Humph! My insurance covered the cost of the exam. Big deal.

Haven't read this thread in its entirity yet, but here's my bm.

Got my first aids when I was 16 or so. As I left the clinic, literally stepping out through the door onto the pavement, the first sound that "greeted" me was a passing juggarnaut. My reflex was to take a backwards step and, in doing so, I slammed the back of my head against the clinic door.

There is a period of adaptation, but once you build up a protective layer of callus on the head, it seems quite normal, right?

I'll be saying "What?" in Chicago...

Especially in restaurants, osso. A good hearing aid helps in environments like that, but is a far cry from normal hearing. I haven't found out how they perform in theaters.

Have you worked with a loop yet? They're supposed to be at their best in theaters.

I'll be saying "what" in Chicago if I go... looking less likely tho.

I never heard of a loop, as a matter of fact.

If it's some kind of $30.00 device that would have saved me $2,600.00, maybe you should wait a few years before telling me about it.

There are people going to Chicago I would just love to meet, and others I really want to see again, but of all the cities in all the states of these United States, I can't think of a one I would less rather revisit. Hmmmm. Well, maybe Dallas.

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sneaking in to say Roger and I can talk together, mostly.
WHATT>>>>???

That is, we can talk, so far.
He has gotten an aid, and is up to snuff. Me, I have constant ear ringing, going on twenty years now. What? I dunno. Could you repeat that?
Not that we meet that often, so far about twice a year. Still, not much of a trial, more of fun.

Huh?

I'll have to drop in more often.

Plop.


All this reminding me of when Diane and I and Paola (from Abuzz) first met in a quiet restaurant. It wasn't, after all, quiet, when we walked up the stairs. We ended up writing little notes for a bit, and then the room started to clear out. We outlasted 'em. Serafina's, I think it was, around 71st? in NYC.

Worry not, roger, loops work WITH hearing aids rather than replacing them...

http://www.hearingloop.org/

I wonder, now. . . . I think mine can be programmed to pick up a certain radio frequency. I don't know if this is the same, or not.

Sounds like it may be it.

The site says that most hearing aids come with the capability.

Trick is to find a place that is "looped", or else buy the components yourself. (If someplace is already looped, it's free for you.) When I used this way back when, it was provided for free by the dept. of rehabilitation, so no idea of cost.

You can write to local theaters and ask if they already have it/ urge them to do so (further info on the website above...)

Nice guarantee on that GN hearing aid. I left in in a shirt pocket a few weeks ago, and ran it through the washing machine. Came out deader than a door nail, but real clean. Whether it was repaired or replaced, I neither know, nor care. No cost to me, and I care alot about that. Had I lost it within the warranty period, there would have been a $250.00 deductable.