tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690929350463100222.post4912823961259302767..comments2024-03-28T04:11:07.435-07:00Comments on Hard Up Hester.: Cause of DeathHard up Hesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561421853249973134noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690929350463100222.post-9916653170246062732013-11-11T02:02:09.298-08:002013-11-11T02:02:09.298-08:00Mallowlark is right. as a hearing aid wearer since...Mallowlark is right. as a hearing aid wearer since I was small, it does take time to get used to a change, its surprising the difference a hearing aid makes. You'd think a hearing aid just makes everything louder, right? Not the case. Deafness rarely is equally deaf across the whole sound spectrum - i.e. most deaf people will hear some sounds better than others (in me, its lower sounds, so i always hear men better than women, for example). The holy grail in hearing aids for the last 50 years has been to try to make hearing aids that are adaptable to the persons' specific hearing loss, rather than just upping the sound across the board - and with digital hearing aids they finally managed it. <br /><br />Its still difficult though and will require a period of retraining for your L&M, and a period of patience for you, as you're learning! I think there are support groups out there - there certainly should be! i don't know if its worth finding one of those? even just one for you to meet the spouses of other hearing aid wearers and see what they've done to get through the situation you're in might help, as well as talking to someone who's been there.<br /><br />good luck with it - if it makes him feel any better, mine are behind the ear with a red light on, so I look like terminator from behind at night...!!!<br /><br />keth<br />xxkethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690929350463100222.post-70536651184261397352013-11-10T14:44:28.555-08:002013-11-10T14:44:28.555-08:00I love this and did you realise ears is an anagram...I love this and did you realise ears is an anagram of where you're going to shove those hearing aids. LOLSals Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983803420404095685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690929350463100222.post-75965673331167639882013-11-10T11:56:45.078-08:002013-11-10T11:56:45.078-08:00One of my closest friends has had hearing aids sin...One of my closest friends has had hearing aids since he was 3, and from listening to him when he's had to get a new pair, I guess it's difficult to get them set up properly - it always seems to take him multiple trips to get them adjusted, and he knows what they should sound like! But they should be able to adjust them to help with background noise, so if that's still a problem after a few weeks, might be worth getting them adjusted? If anything, my friend has the opposite problem - he speaks too quietly in the car, for example, because his hearing aids filter out the road noise that the rest of us hear.mallowlarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15817651619883272316noreply@blogger.com