YYIIIiiIIIiIPPPES! I just surfed up to Amazon before even finishing the video to order some 312 Duracells - which I HOPE are still in the old packaging. We shall see, cuz sometimes packaging changes faster than the vendor’s pictures at Amazon (case in point: Dr Tung’s cardamom-flavored dental floss, that was pictured as being spooled in a plastic container BUT were delivered in cheap, flimsy cardboard boxes that were almost impossible to use for cutting the floss - but I digress).
With ALL sympathy and empathy for the folks who ingest hearing aid batteries, um, well, er, I can’t help but to think that total annual GUN deaths far out-number those of hearing aid battery swallowing and yet we don’t force gun users to carry a pair of giant scissors to release them for use at home, on the range, in schools or on the street.
I just don’t get it! It’s like some kind of conspiracy to make life HARD and TEDIOUS for us folks who continue to want a disposable battery option for our aids. Maybe cuz we want more than 15 hrs a day of use?!?!? I guess I’ll also have to order a few of the old-fashioned keyring battery caddies at Amazon. I notice that I’ll still need scissors, cuz these little compartments are too small for the longer (EASIER TO PEEL OFF) tabs on my Duracell batteries.
Maybe in years to come we’ll add a category to Home Health Care assessments: bathing, dressing, eating, and changing hearing aid batteries? By then I’ll have probably lost the battle with my disposable batteries and have no other option than rechargeables that give me a Cinderella’s day of use.