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Just picked up my new hearing aids today. Literally I've had them for about 2 hours now. My own voice sounds strange.
The backup noise in the Prius is super annoying. I heard the creek of the board in our house when I stepped inside. The water from the waterfall sounds different. The clicking noise from the turn signal was sharper and more plasticky.
And Jeff was on the phone to our friend girl purple, he had the conductive headphones on and when I leaned in I could hear Amy's voice but Jeff said no she can't hear you meaning me? Because normally I can't but this time I could! I couldn't hear super well but I could hear well enough to make out words and I was never able to do that before.
I've had a couple of friends now remind me that I'm likely to be tired today after all of this new input. Gosh yes everything is much more clear than it has been. They're light, I can barely feel them on the outside of my ear, the plug inside my ear? that's bearable, it's not aggravating, I can feel how I will probably get used to it.
I'm going to have to learn how to be very gentle in handling them. They are a new kind of model where I have Bluetooth enabled, and paired with my phone.
I was sat in the parking lot, because I was trying to nerve myself up to leave to drive home with these new ears in, and my auntie called, my aunt Kay, who her house burned down in late September and she barely got out. And the family didn't, well my family didn't, hear about it until mid to late October.
Fortunately she grabbed her purse on her way out and so she had her phone and her car keys and her wallet. So I think I'm going to try and find a way of getting her a nice sweater for Christmas. Even if I don't do other Christmas presents I think I'll do that. So I talked on the phone with Kay for almost half an hour I think. Getting a little bit caught up and a little bit of her story and how she got out and what she's been doing since. So I got a good test of what it's like getting a phone call on these things.
Jeff is currently up on the roof, he's installing a new vent for over the stove. We've lived in this house for 6 years and the vent was never connected to anything that would vent the fumes out of the house and it took us 4 years to recognize it. So we have a new vent. He's working on drilling a hole in the roof wow and he's installing the flashing and the I don't know what you call the metal tubing duct work? Probably that's it I'm just impressed that he is trying to do this himself but I wish he waited until our friend was available to to be here and be his backup.
So that's my news, I have new ears, and I am definitely planning on making the joke about you got your ears on good buddy? From the CB era. It's possible that will never not be funny.
The backup noise in the Prius is super annoying. I heard the creek of the board in our house when I stepped inside. The water from the waterfall sounds different. The clicking noise from the turn signal was sharper and more plasticky.
And Jeff was on the phone to our friend girl purple, he had the conductive headphones on and when I leaned in I could hear Amy's voice but Jeff said no she can't hear you meaning me? Because normally I can't but this time I could! I couldn't hear super well but I could hear well enough to make out words and I was never able to do that before.
I've had a couple of friends now remind me that I'm likely to be tired today after all of this new input. Gosh yes everything is much more clear than it has been. They're light, I can barely feel them on the outside of my ear, the plug inside my ear? that's bearable, it's not aggravating, I can feel how I will probably get used to it.
I'm going to have to learn how to be very gentle in handling them. They are a new kind of model where I have Bluetooth enabled, and paired with my phone.
I was sat in the parking lot, because I was trying to nerve myself up to leave to drive home with these new ears in, and my auntie called, my aunt Kay, who her house burned down in late September and she barely got out. And the family didn't, well my family didn't, hear about it until mid to late October.
Fortunately she grabbed her purse on her way out and so she had her phone and her car keys and her wallet. So I think I'm going to try and find a way of getting her a nice sweater for Christmas. Even if I don't do other Christmas presents I think I'll do that. So I talked on the phone with Kay for almost half an hour I think. Getting a little bit caught up and a little bit of her story and how she got out and what she's been doing since. So I got a good test of what it's like getting a phone call on these things.
Jeff is currently up on the roof, he's installing a new vent for over the stove. We've lived in this house for 6 years and the vent was never connected to anything that would vent the fumes out of the house and it took us 4 years to recognize it. So we have a new vent. He's working on drilling a hole in the roof wow and he's installing the flashing and the I don't know what you call the metal tubing duct work? Probably that's it I'm just impressed that he is trying to do this himself but I wish he waited until our friend was available to to be here and be his backup.
So that's my news, I have new ears, and I am definitely planning on making the joke about you got your ears on good buddy? From the CB era. It's possible that will never not be funny.
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And I was hearing it behind my sinuses. In the middle of my skull. Delightfully weird!