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godfry n. glad
05-05-2006, 12:15 AM
No, not AIDS, but aids, as in hearing aids. Two of 'em. One for each ear.

This is new for me. I have had an aid in my left ear since the lying ear butcher masquerading as an otolaryngologist fucked it up in 1998. My right ear finally has degenerated sufficiently to justify a hearing aid for it as well. Now I can attempt to get them harmonized so that my hearing is improved. I just had them fit this morning, so I'm still going through the "test period" where I find out some of the problems.

Still... This stuff is not cheap. Two hearing aids is costing me near $5,000 and no health insurance I know of covers this stuff, so it's out of pocket.

So, Scarletpeaches... You can moan and groan all you want about turning 30, but I've got aids...so there.
Leesifer
05-05-2006, 12:21 AM
ARE THEY WORKING, GODFRY?

Seriously, I hope they work out for you, godfry and that they aren't uncomfortable.
Julie
05-05-2006, 01:20 AM
Wow Thats so much more than my Dads are costing. he's getting his first set and they are only $2000 Canadian

But I'M GLAD YOU CAN HEAR AGAIN
godfry n. glad
05-05-2006, 01:41 AM
Wow Thats so much more than my Dads are costing. he's getting his first set and they are only $2000 Canadian

That's how much my single hearing aid cost me eight years ago. Of course, I took a step up in quality, too. But, all in all, it's the American way...y'know, "what the market can bear."

But I'M GLAD YOU CAN HEAR AGAIN

Thanks, but I COULD BEFORE, JUST NOT WELL.

I was kind of hoping that I could tune into whispered conversations across the room, but such is not my luck.:darn:
lisarea
05-05-2006, 03:12 AM
Congratulations on your fancy new aids, godfry! Are they, like, those big Victrola horn thingies?

If I ever get hearing aids (which I prolly should), I want to get really big ones with, like, some giant switch that I can turn off really conspicuously.

I might just modify a lightswitch or summat.

Oh, man, that is going to rawk.
Dingfod
05-05-2006, 03:21 AM
I ain't getting no hearin' aids, I'm going the old fashioned way, an ear trumpet.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/soundandfury/cochlear/images/amplify.jpg


Eh?
BracesForImpact
05-05-2006, 03:22 AM
Ugh, I just got rid of a piece of wax that was blocking one of my ear canals. The loss in hearing made me very nervous - thankfully that it wasn't permanent!
godfry n. glad
05-05-2006, 03:25 AM
Congratulations on your fancy new aids, godfry! Are they, like, those big Victrola horn thingies?

:giggle:

Nope...Geez, you'd think I was going through my life like an inverted Viking or sumpin'. Y'know, MooseIBe might really gain from something like that.

If I ever get hearing aids (which I prolly should), I want to get really big ones with, like, some giant switch that I can turn off really conspicuously.

I might just modify a lightswitch or summat.

Oh, man, that is going to rawk.

Heh....Well, mine aren't all that conspicuous, but they aren't the little teeny earbud thingees. They are the standard type units with the power/modulation unit slung behind each ear. They really can't be seen until I get my hair cut back (get my ears lowered), then they're more conspicuous. I have been known to reach up and conspicuously turn off my hearing aid in the midst of a disagreement with a co-worker. It works just peachy-keen as an insult. My supervisor has told me it's rude, though. I did tell her that it wasn't half as rude as what I was about to say - and she believed me. :D
Legs
05-05-2006, 03:46 AM
eh?
:listen:
godfry n. glad
05-05-2006, 06:46 AM
eh?
:listen:

I said, "it wasn't half as rude as what I was about to say.".
godfry n. glad
05-05-2006, 06:48 AM
Turning off my hearing aid, that is.
verte
05-05-2006, 12:39 PM
I have been known to reach up and conspicuously turn off my hearing aid in the midst of a disagreement with a co-worker. It works just peachy-keen as an insult. My supervisor has told me it's rude, though. I did tell her that it wasn't half as rude as what I was about to say - and she believed me. :D

:bow2:
livius drusus
05-05-2006, 01:38 PM
Your supervisor is a wise, wise woman. :ffgiggle:

I'm surprised at the cost, I must say. You seem to have taken it in stride, godfry, presumably because you knew what was coming. I had no idea hearing aids could be so expensive.




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cappuccino
05-05-2006, 01:51 PM
So, Scarletpeaches... You can moan and groan all you want about turning 30, but I've got aids...so there.

I've been wearing aids all my life, So There!
lady cop
05-05-2006, 02:00 PM
bless your heart and your hearing aids godfry! you have courage. i'm in total denial. it was a running joke my radio was always set to 'ear-splitting mind-bending torturous screeching'. i set my TV on closed-captioning so i don't have to listen to commercials. so i say. years of SCUBA and firing range have destroyed my hearing. i won't even talk on the phone. was it hard for you to accept? i'm young for chrissakes!
MonCapitan2002
05-05-2006, 06:10 PM
Don't they provide ear muffs for when you are at the range?
pescifish
05-05-2006, 07:22 PM
:leia:
But
05-05-2006, 08:26 PM
:giggles:
Legs
05-05-2006, 09:26 PM
I thought ear muffs just kept ears warm.
godfry n. glad
05-05-2006, 09:41 PM
bless your heart and your hearing aids godfry! you have courage. i'm in total denial. it was a running joke my radio was always set to 'ear-splitting mind-bending torturous screeching'. i set my TV on closed-captioning so i don't have to listen to commercials. so i say. years of SCUBA and firing range have destroyed my hearing. i won't even talk on the phone. was it hard for you to accept? i'm young for chrissakes!

Actually, no, it wasn't hard for me to accept. I had a series of ear infections when I was a child and ever since I've been near the limit for hearing assistance. It was more a matter of when than if. If I hadn't had that dumbshit otolaryngologist with a payment due on his Mercedes, I'd have a problem that was a lot easier to correct. He fucked up my left ear big time with the promise that he could return it to near normal (possibility of negative outcome = negliable), making a hearing aid absolutely necessary for my left ear.
Lauri D
05-05-2006, 11:19 PM
Hope they work out well for ya godfry.

My dad had scarlet fever or something when he was four (like early 1930's) and has had to wearing the aids his whole life, still has the old-fashionedy wrap around kind. Have you noticed that they screech and whine sometimes? I took his out for him at the hospital and when I put them next to each other in a little container they made a godawful noise.

Word to the wise: do not jump off a boat or dock into a lake or any large body of water and forget to take them out. I can't tell you how many pairs of the aids he went through before learning this important lesson.

He also used to totally tune out when he didn't want to be bothered by other people talking or whatever. I kind of always envied him that ability, kind of like hitting the "MUTE" button on the rest of the world.
pescifish
05-06-2006, 01:51 AM
".I thought ear muffs just kept ears warm.
I carry ear plugs with me all the time these days (job requirement). If I'm going to walk across the flightline tarmac to another building and they are running the jet engines (or the frickin' V-22s across the parking lot), I will wear the stick-in-the-ear plugs I carry around with me AND the headset ear protection that I imagine MonCapitan2002 is referring to as "ear muffs."