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Say you are a passenger in a car and you get tired of hearing the noisy traffic, simply turn the volume down. Then you can turn it back up when the ride is over.
Using hearing aids isn't this simple -- especially for someone who has a profound loss. Heck, this wasn't even true for me when I had moderately-severe loss because I constantly had to adjust the volume control on my hearing aids. When environmental sounds were too loud, I had to turn them down. When someone spoke to me, I had to turn them back up. One thing I can say though is that I'm so glad the hearing aids I've worn in the past (Oticon 380Ps and Oticon DigiFocus II super power BTEs) had volume controls. They were a must for me. If my hearing aids didn't have them, I have no idea how I would have functioned.
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Left ear - Nucleus 24 Contour Advance with Freedom BTE
(Implanted: 12/22/04 | Activated: 1/18/05)
Right ear - Nucleus Freedom
(Implanted: 2/1/06 | Activated: 3/1/06)
Deafblind/Postlingual
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