Today I visited a new hearing aid practitioner My audiologist had politely suggested I needed to find someone new
I’m really glad that I made the change.
We talked as he worked on my hearing aids. He didn’t do a hearing test; he used the last one done by the other audiologist.
He put the values in, and used Target on his computer.
I asked him what he found.
- the old setup used the wrong domes; it was open domes, and the other audiologist had me use closed domes for a long time.
- the two Paradise P90R’s weren’t set up to communicate. Sorry; don’t know how to describe that.
As a result he said that the directional mikes didn’t work. Features like noise cancelling didn’t work.
Today at the fitness centre I could hear and understand a man talking to an attendant. I was looking at his back; I couldn’t lip read of course. I understood every word. He was about 20 feet away. I could hear my friend behind me talking. He was more than 10 feet away, and behind me. I understood what he said.
Tonight I was in an area running my dog. There were 4 dogs; maybe 6 people. We were in the flight path of a major airport with planes perhaps 2000? feet overhead and they had just take off. I never had trouble hearing what was being said. If I had done that yesterday I wouldn’t have understand anything said.
Hearing Well Matters is the name of the firm. I’m so impressed.
There’s hope. But there’s no excuse for our suppliers setting up our hearing aids badly. Mine were bad for almost 2 years.
DaveL