Re: Bluetooth thingy

["ABLE1" <nospamhere@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<chasbo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

> Thanks for the responses.  My wife is getting fed up with my "What did
> you say?"  I can hear her, but because the eardrums don't vibrate as
> well when they were younger, high frequencies are inaudible unless I
> put my ear on some keypads. Keypads with adjustible tones I lower to a
> frequency I can hear when near the pad, but if I'm in another room,
> forget it! Cupping my ear(s) brings in more sound, making the vowels
> and consonants much clearer.

chasbo,

You will never, I repeat NEVER get your wife or any wife to understand the
problem.  I have been living with mine for 37 years and believe me when I
say it is ALWAYS your fault.

Even when I try to explain that "I heard you!! I just did not UNDERSTAND
you."  Understanding is the real key.

The sense of hearing is a miraculous thing.  You really do not appreciate it
until it starts or no longer works.  Sometimes it takes long time to realize
it is getting bad.  For me and it sounds like (no pun intended) that you
have similar loss, it is in the audible speech range that you do not hear
all the frequencies.  When the highs are chopped off the words sound like
mush.

Things like E B C D G all sound the same.  There, care, stare, bear, bare
all sound alike but mean totally different things.  In a conversation I am
always trying to figure out what word or words were used a sentence ago and
sometime I will answer a question totally wrong as a result.  When that
happens I get a strange look for who ever I am talking to and then have to
say, can we start over and slower because I think I missed something
important.  And that is with the aids installed.

Little kids are the worst, especially girls.  I have learned with them that
if I don't get it the second time it is not going to happen.  Getting them
to lower their voice and speak slower is not something that is possible for
them.

On a serious note.  Hearing aids do help.  Don't let the sales person tell
you otherwise, they are not perfect.  Every individual is different and some
will do great with them.  I am better because I have them but I know the
limitations and work with it.

The sad part is to get them to be a good as they can be serious dollars need
to be spent.  My first set cost me $2,500 and were expected to last 5 years.
I pushed it to 10 years.  The second set $5,000 and just starting my second
year with them.  I can say that the latest are much better than the first.

For those reading this I hope that I have answered some of the questions and
cleared up some of the concerns even though you were not asking.  If you
need them, get them.

For the younger crowd(if there are any here) take care of your ears.  My
time of little guns, very big guns, loud cars, model airplanes, and 22 years
of working in loud manufacturing all with out any hearing protection
delivered what I have today.  Can't go back and fix it.

Have a Happy New Year.

Les