OW. I can SO empathize. Last thing we want on the job (or really, ANY place) is for aids to go OFF on us. This is another clear example why Phonak (and others) need to keep making battery-operated aids an option for us.
If I had battery-operated Lumity Life aids, I’d need ONE pair (not TWO), and ONE Roger stick, not TWO. (yes others are happy to xfer licenses back and forth all day, but not me) I’d travel with slim packs of batteries and not a clunky charger that needs reliable power to plug in to.
I’d have a LOT more confidence away from home, not worrying when WWIII will begin and will I have any power anywhere to charge my lil’ ol’ aids up in the thick of things. It shouldn’t be like this.
Unfortunately, tragedy usually doesn’t come alone, fate, cause, and effect, will usually come into play… Keez girlfriend Ali died 10 weeks later, in his car! And, I gave her the car… The anguish & guilt I felt, was truthfully unimaginable, Ali had begged & pleaded for the car, it was a Skoda Fabia VRS, a souped up Derv, 197 BHP, and Ali was in that Fabia, probably just as much as Keez? They had been going out together for about 3 years, and Ali lived just as much in our house, as she was at home, she was essentially family… The value of the car wasn’t the issue, you don’t care about monetary things when someone passes, I was worried it might be too powerful, and so it proved… Basically Ali took a corner too quick, went into a skid in heavy rain, hit a deviation sign post, which the car ramped up, and hit a very large tree, hitting the tree, roof first, killing her instantly, and the young guy she was giving a lift too…It took many years, for me to come to terms with, I am acutely aware, I couldn’t honestly have refused Ali that car, it was her connection to Keez, but in hindsight, had I refused, she might not have spoken to me again, but she may have lived to tell the tale? My extreme apologies for the thread hijack…Kev x