[Magdalen] Customer service

[Jay Weigel]

My grandfather, dear man, was deaf as a doorknob and didn't like his
hearing aids.He only wore them when he absolutely had to, as when traveling
or otherwise dealing with people outside the family. The rest of us were
reduced to basically shouting at him. He was a very devout man, and he told
my mother once that he thought maybe God had closed his ears so that he
could hear Him better. Imagine my surprise when a couple of years later I
encountered almost that exact line in a book by Anya Seton!

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was very fortunate with the learning curve. The audiologist said she was
> starting me out with a lower amplification than I would need, but that she
> could gradually increase it remotely as I got used to it. She said it might
> take as long as a month. At my one-week check, we determined that I was
> ready for full strength.
>
> > On Sep 14, 2016, at 2:06 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > And he was absolutely correct (according to a friend who was an engineer
> > with a part-time volunteer gig designng & building communication aids for
> > the severely disabled).
> >
> > I always tell friends that hearing aids are tools, and require a period
> of
> > learning to use them.
> > There's a learning curve.
> >
> > Human beings are great at learning to use tools. It may even be what we
> do
> > best.
> > -M
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, September 14, 2016, Roger Stokes <
> > roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> In his later years my father was totally blind as a result of
> >> uncontrollable glaucoma.  He said that it was his sight that had gone
> >> rather than his hearing.  The latter would have left him feeling totally
> >> isolated from what was going on around him.
> >>
> >>
>