[Magdalen] anomanous

[Marion Thompson]

Mine are a metal grey, which was my choice, given the colour of my hair.

My own life with aids started nearly 2 years ago when I went to the dr and asked him to clean out my ears because I wasn’t hearing clearly.  He pronounced them as clean as a whistle and said “Just age-related loss.  Nothing serious.”  NOTHING SERIOUS?!?!?! I responded.  I rushed to my local Sound place and took the tests and found  I was -40 in the left ear and -20 in the right.  Typical shooting damage in the left, but I digress.

I certainly have been able to turn down the radio and the TV – a lot!  I’m still struggling to find what feels like a natural setting for singing.  How I sound to me in my own head, an elusive sweet spot.  Recently I was given a second option, one that picks up the ambient sound, rather than just conversational focus.  The jury is out.  I don’t know.  Meanwhile I’m doing without the left one because it has a problem and I have to wait to see the tech.  Managing fine, but yesterday  in the noisy environment a soft-spoken pub mate drew a lot of blanks from me as I tried to make sense of his  stroke-blurred words.

As an old friend used to say, “It could be worse.”  The main thing to take away is ‘Don’t delay!  Get checked now and do something about the problem.’  The longer you leave it, the harder it will be to adjust to the hearing aid and the more detrimental to your quality of life it will be.’

Marion 

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From: Grace Cangialosi
Sent: September 8, 2018 3:11 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] anomanous

Probably! One of my friends has some lovely mahogany colored ones. Mine are just a boring metal gray. But they’re small and hardly show.

> On Sep 8, 2018, at 12:12 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Very helpful.
> and not just to me, I'm certain.
> Hope they make purple hearing aids.
> -M
> 
>> On Saturday, September 8, 2018, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry—I didn’t think it sounded like I was panicking. I just thought my
>> experience might be helpful...
>> Obviously, YMMV.
>> 
>>