[Magdalen] Customer service

[Grace Cangialosi]

What a lot of people don't realize is that wearing them sporadically is less than helpful, because your brain never gets a chance to adjust to the new hearing level.

> On Sep 14, 2016, at 4:52 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>>