Tagged With: hearing aids
Starkey Hearing Foundation in Africa
Last night was the final episode of Celebrity Apprentice, in which Marlee Matlin faced off against John Rich to win the game. Rich was playing for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which treats children with cancer, and Matlin was playing for the Starkey Hearing Foundation which provides hearing aids to children in the United States … Continue reading
Hearing Aids and Phone
My old hearing aids were awesome. They knew when I got a phone call, and switched over to phone mode automatically. If I wanted to initiate a call, I only had to tap one button to switch things over. The microphone unit was small and easy to clip on. Those days are no longer, of … Continue reading
Need New Hearing Aids
I give up. I can’t find my hearing aids anywhere. And it’s breaking my heart. For all the complaining I’ve done about the way the open fit feels in my ears, they were really good hearing aids. They made life so much simpler! They covered a huge range – all the way up to 10kHz … Continue reading
My Hearing Loss (5/49)
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, … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
My World, Restored
Right Side Top View, originally uploaded by woofiegrrl. I can summarize how I feel right now in six words. I can hear my wife again.
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading