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I finally succumbed to the collective pleas of my wife and kids and went for a hearing test at Kaiser. Showed have a 20 or greater dB dropoff from normal hearing across the board and up to 60/70 dBs at the higher frequencies.
Decided to go to Costco, and the testing there resulted in an audiometry that was almost identical, so come July 1 I will be sporting a new set of Philips 9030 MNR T R behind-the-ear hearing aids. I tried the demo pair out for about 10 minutes at the store, and it was analogous to what my wife must have felt when she was 12 and got her first pair of glasses (she said she hadn't known trees have leaves!)
While it is sobering to know that I've missed so much, I'm really looking forward to being able to hear better - particularly conversation. My family are always pissed, because I misinterpret or don't hear, particularly if there is TV or other noise in the background. However, I'm hoping that it will improve the way I hear music. Sometimes, I have difficulty determining pitch, particularly wrt chords and have trouble listening to a song and working it out for myself to play. I always thought it just meant I don't have perfect pitch, but perhaps it could be a symptom of my disability?
Anyway - looking forward to getting back to the land of the hearing. These hearing aids will replace my bluetooth earbuds and be what I use to get phone calls, zoom meetings, etc. as well as facilitating better communications with my family and colleagues.
Decided to go to Costco, and the testing there resulted in an audiometry that was almost identical, so come July 1 I will be sporting a new set of Philips 9030 MNR T R behind-the-ear hearing aids. I tried the demo pair out for about 10 minutes at the store, and it was analogous to what my wife must have felt when she was 12 and got her first pair of glasses (she said she hadn't known trees have leaves!)
While it is sobering to know that I've missed so much, I'm really looking forward to being able to hear better - particularly conversation. My family are always pissed, because I misinterpret or don't hear, particularly if there is TV or other noise in the background. However, I'm hoping that it will improve the way I hear music. Sometimes, I have difficulty determining pitch, particularly wrt chords and have trouble listening to a song and working it out for myself to play. I always thought it just meant I don't have perfect pitch, but perhaps it could be a symptom of my disability?
Anyway - looking forward to getting back to the land of the hearing. These hearing aids will replace my bluetooth earbuds and be what I use to get phone calls, zoom meetings, etc. as well as facilitating better communications with my family and colleagues.
