[Magdalen] Customer service

[Jay Weigel]

This was back in the 1950s when hearing aids were considerably less
advanced than they are now, and considerably more irritating to the wearer,
according to many.

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> >>
>