Thursday, December 11, 2014
The "The Invention of the Year" Story
It was an ordinary day. Just left Miracle Ear after visiting with Patrick, my audiologist, for about half an hour. My visit today was to see how my new hearing aides were working out and to see if they needed any adjustments. Patrick plugged them into his computer and saw that I was actually using them about 11 hours per day. I had them in my ears 1,654 hours since my last visit to him. This was quite a turn around from the first pair of hearing aides I had purchased from him a few years ago. Story goes like this ……. a few years ago I saw an ad in the Lancaster Newspaper asking for volunteers to try out a new type of hearing aide. Well, I finally decided that it was time for my wife to stop having to repeat everything at least two or three times when she was talking to me. I made an appointment, told Carol about it, and the two of us visited Patrick. He tested my hearing while I sat in a huge machine in his office, then fitted me for above the ear aides with a piece that ran from the hearing aide into my ear. If I liked them after a certain amount of time, he would give me a discount to purchase them.
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After my wife has been coercing me for years to "do something" about my hearing, I finally relented. I'm your age. Being a military Vet, I was tested and fitted and ordered and go back to Lebanon VA after New Years to pick up. Sever
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Good luck Chip. Don't give up on them, since it will take quite a bit of time to get adjusted to them, but after you get acquainted with your hearing aides, you'll realize how much you have been missing. My loss was from coaching rifle in high school for years without ear protection which wasn't thought to be important in the late 60s-early 70s.
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