My hearing loss is a funny thing. I can hear quite well even without hearing aids, but not perfectly. I miss conversations if I’m not looking at the person – I can’t really lipread yet (though I’m taking a class this fall) but I do need to focus on them visually to understand. Who knows, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hearing aids’
Bluetooth in Touch 2G
Holy crap, the iPod Touch 2G has Bluetooth capability. It’s going to be unlocked with iPhone OS 3.0, which was announced today. Touch users have to pay $10 for the upgrade, which firesign3000 tells me is the same thing that happened with the 1.0 to 2.0 upgrade – iPhone users get it free, but once [...]
Hearing Update
I need to get another audiogram done. Right now I have the TV cranked above 30, and I had the radio cranked up in the car this morning, too. I haven’t been able to hear any of my professors this week; several of them speak along with their signing, usually just above a whisper, but [...]
Back in Second Life
I joined Second Life back in 2005 or so. For a while I didn’t have a computer that could do it at all so I only played at friends’ houses. Then I had a computer that could do it, but not well, so I got frustrated and gave up on it. Now I’m back, thanks [...]
My World, Restored
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First Fitting
Today I got fitted for hearing aids. I am getting open fit Oticon Epoq XW’s with the Bluetooth option. Total cost is $5,648 and I’ve already put down a $200 deposit. I got them in “beige silver” – the closest option to my skin tone. I was surprised to find that the little tiny tube [...]
April 1st
My prank on :A: was so good, she thought it was Google’s prank! I had changed all her iGoogle stuff to be in German, including widgets all in German and a different theme and everything. I used Google Translate to put instructions on how to restore the backup I made beforehand, but she didn’t bother [...]
