Beach girl
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Hi everyone,
I've been reading for a few days, so time to introduce myself. I'm a 60 year old, late deafened woman, now retired from the Foreign Service. I lost my hearing gradually over the last 30 years; hearing loss was accelerated after I lived in Ghana and had to take the anti-malaria medication for two years. I was not aware at the time that a small percentage of people are sensitive to it and hearing loss is a known side-effect. I was one of those few, apparently.
My husband and I spend our time about half and half between the Northern Virginia area and the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I LOVE being retired! Mostly because it gives more time to do things with our two poodles, Casey and Pippin. I do obedience and agility training with Casey, and hope to compete with him in agility. Pippin, about 9 years old, mostly lives a life of leisure, as he is not interested in all that running and jumping required for agility. Lazy thing.
I use hearing aids in both ears, currently using Phonak Savia Arts. Not really crazy about them, as I find the automatic switching from program to program kind of annoying, especially in the car when I want to listen to the radio. The main program is excellent, but as soon as I start driving, it switches to something else so the radio music and speech then "disappears" into a sort of jumble of background noise.
Eh, maybe time to try something else. Would love to hear recommendations.
I'm also interested in getting advice/opinions on various technologies related to using the phone (I've given up on using phones, which makes me feel quite isolated sometimes), cell phones, internet TV, etc., etc.
Anyway, that's the story of my life. So here I am, saying "hi" to you all.
I've been reading for a few days, so time to introduce myself. I'm a 60 year old, late deafened woman, now retired from the Foreign Service. I lost my hearing gradually over the last 30 years; hearing loss was accelerated after I lived in Ghana and had to take the anti-malaria medication for two years. I was not aware at the time that a small percentage of people are sensitive to it and hearing loss is a known side-effect. I was one of those few, apparently.
My husband and I spend our time about half and half between the Northern Virginia area and the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I LOVE being retired! Mostly because it gives more time to do things with our two poodles, Casey and Pippin. I do obedience and agility training with Casey, and hope to compete with him in agility. Pippin, about 9 years old, mostly lives a life of leisure, as he is not interested in all that running and jumping required for agility. Lazy thing.
I use hearing aids in both ears, currently using Phonak Savia Arts. Not really crazy about them, as I find the automatic switching from program to program kind of annoying, especially in the car when I want to listen to the radio. The main program is excellent, but as soon as I start driving, it switches to something else so the radio music and speech then "disappears" into a sort of jumble of background noise.
Eh, maybe time to try something else. Would love to hear recommendations.
I'm also interested in getting advice/opinions on various technologies related to using the phone (I've given up on using phones, which makes me feel quite isolated sometimes), cell phones, internet TV, etc., etc.
Anyway, that's the story of my life. So here I am, saying "hi" to you all.