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David O's avatar

I got mine two months ago from the VA. I had a traumatic hearing loss 50 years ago from a rocket blast in Vietnam. For most of the last 50 years analog hearing aids were ineffective because all they did was amplify across the entire spectrum. The new digital ones solved the problem because they can be tuned to amplify only the part of the spectrum that’s damaged. Thank goodness for technology. For most of five decades I couldn’t hear or understand what women were saying. Now I can hear and still not understand.

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Diana M. Wilson's avatar

LOVE THIS! Love these lines..."The next morning, I got up like I normally do and made coffee — the machine was a symphony of sound, hissing and steaming — and then sat outside on our front steps. I wish I could describe to you the sound of the birds calling and singing; it was like nothing I’d heard since I was a kid, when we used to visit extended family in small-town Georgia."

Isn't it interesting the ways in which we can make our lives more challenging than what they need to be?

Thanks for this...it may be time for me to make that "dreaded" visit to the audiologist myself. 😁

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