Do you guys embrace your hearing loss/deafness?!

Start talking with you hand on your aid. Look around furtively. Now, you're the FBI. lol
 
sallylou said:
Start talking with you hand on your aid. Look around furtively. Now, you're the FBI. lol
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I used to be tempted to make fun of BTDB's (this is an actual acronym in use): Blue Tooth Douche Bags. You know, those people who wear Bluetooth devices in their ears constantly and always look like they're talking to themselves as they're walking around.

Anyway, I was tempted to fiddle with my hearing aid in the presence of BTDB's in an elevator with me, at one workplace, while using phone phrases. Hello? Wait... I'm losing you... SPEAK UP!
 
audiodef said:
I used to be tempted to make fun of BTDB's (this is an actual acronym in use): Blue Tooth Douche Bags. You know, those people who wear Bluetooth devices in their ears constantly and always look like they're talking to themselves as they're walking around.

Anyway, I was tempted to fiddle with my hearing aid in the presence of BTDB's in an elevator with me, at one workplace, while using phone phrases. Hello? Wait... I'm losing you... SPEAK UP!
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Might be even more funny with a group of us almost like we are talking to each other even though we are all on the same elevator! Best to do this in the present of someone actually on a phone call.... He he he
 
Cheetah said:
Might be even more funny with a group of us almost like we are talking to each other even though we are all on the same elevator! Best to do this in the present of someone actually on a phone call.... He he he
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Or better yet, a bunch of deaf people with hearing aids and implants fiddling with the controls and producing feedback while leaning toward each other, without speaking or signing. If someone looks at us funny, explain that we are from Binar. We are here to overhaul the Enterprise. Please direct us to engineering.
 
Banjo said:
Just curious, what is your prediction on the direction the hearing clinics are headed in within the next 20 years? Myself, I can see the clinics becoming a thing of the past due to the technology becoming more sophisticated all of the times. Maybe not in 20 years, but eventually.

I'm referring to the clinics where only hearing aids are sold, not cochlear implants.
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I think clinics will still be there in increasing number simply because the technology will get smaller, smarter (e.g. voice recognition over noise), and more powerful with digital hearing aids technology constantly improving. Why more clinics? I'd say that more and more people will accept and use hearing aids while the stigma of wearing one would largely go away. Some 3 out of 5 Americans with hearing loss do not wear hearing aids. This is an improvement from 15 years ago when it was 4 out of 5.
 
audiodef said:
Or better yet, a bunch of deaf people with hearing aids and implants fiddling with the controls and producing feedback while leaning toward each other, without speaking or signing. If someone looks at us funny, explain that we are from Binar. We are here to overhaul the Enterprise. Please direct us to engineering.
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Haha, close to what I was thinking! A bunch of us simultaneously putting our hands to our ears to make that beloved "screeeeetch"... just enough to disrupt another "very important" call.
 
I know people involved with hearing clinics. They are still selling just hearing aids and FM systems. Are you aware that they are still using Windows XP for their softwares since that's what they require? Windows Vista, nah. Windows 7, nah. Windows 8? Probably nah.

Talk about staying in the dark ages.

Keeping up with the technology is pretty important if you ask me. Apparently these people don't appear to think so.
 
Digital aids are good for several years or longer. My last one lasted 13 years before it suddenly conked out. My second one is now 4 years old.
 
Banjo said:
I know people involved with hearing clinics. They are still selling just hearing aids and FM systems. Are you aware that they are still using Windows XP for their softwares since that's what they require? Windows Vista, nah. Windows 7, nah. Windows 8? Probably nah.

Talk about staying in the dark ages.

Keeping up with the technology is pretty important if you ask me. Apparently these people don't appear to think so.
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They're definitely not interested in coming out of the dark ages. Their computers are still infected with the Trojan virus known as "Windows". :giggle:
 
kokonut said:
Digital aids are good for several years or longer. My last one lasted 13 years before it suddenly conked out. My second one is now 4 years old.
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My current aids are going on seven years old. My audiologist thinks I should look into replacing them soon. I'm having no trouble with them and I think they'll last a few more years, but I'm interested in looking for new aids anyway.

Not sure where I'm going to get money for them, though. Maryland is supposed to have a program to help, but they have weird rules that I'm not interested in dancing to.
 
Get your audi to give you a loner pair. If that audi won't, find someone else. An audi gave me a loaner pair of the latest and greatest new HAs. I decided that they weren't any better than what I already had (mine are about 5 years old). Sounds like your audi wants some cash out of you. Audis don't make any money just cleaning HAs and selling parts. If you get a loaner pair, you can make an informed decision. Be wary of an audi who refuses to do it.
 
The audiologist I've been using is good. I'm not worried about her trying to rip me off. :)
 
Audiofuzzy said:
Precise, of course :)

But I am not taking this test, sorry... what I don't like about it is,
it requires my email and then it keep it - oh, no, I don't like that :shock:.

Fuzzy
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I have a 'throw-away' email address at yahoo that I use for things like that.
 
Oh, good idea. when I have time, then.

re: HAs.
we tend to forget we "true" deaf and HoH are not the only ones who need them.
There is a lot of others, for example late deafened professionals like doctors, nurses
who need to listen to their patients, heart, pulse etc and that's a huge market, too.

Fuzzy
 
Cheetah said:
Ditto, except I threw it away and don't remember what it is anymore. :giggle:
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I'm sure there's a tech-support story in which someone threw away his computer because he had to put something in the trash...
 
audiodef said:
I'm sure there's a tech-support story in which someone threw away his computer because he had to put something in the trash...
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I had to scroll up to see what we were talking about! :giggle:

That reminds me of the day I finally disposed of my first computer. I loved that hunk of metal. :( I did my first college level programming on it. Built my first Linux box with it. Sigh, good times! Oh man, now you got me all nostalgic! :type: :tears:
 
Cheetah said:
I had to scroll up to see what we were talking about! :giggle:

That reminds me of the day I finally disposed of my first computer. I loved that hunk of metal. :( I did my first college level programming on it. Built my first Linux box with it. Sigh, good times! Oh man, now you got me all nostalgic! :type: :tears:
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My first computer was a Mac, can't remember the model. I don't even remember when I got rid of it, but I did some fun things with it.

What I really regret throwing out (and I put the damn thing in the dumpster. Call me a moron!) is a Mac Classic. There was nothing wrong with it. I just wasn't in a good place in my head at the time. I wish I still had it for the nerd factor, and that it might be a collector's item some day.
 
Okay, here's me ageing myself. My first computer was the Radio Shack, TRS-80 Model 1, Model 2 and Model 3 as well as their Color Computer. Serial number for the Coco - was 12, serial number for the Mod 1 was 8, serial number for the Mod 2 was 16 and serial number for the Mod 3 was 4.

We also had the Daisy Wheel printer with printer wheels for different fonts.
 
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