HA Moments

SkullChick · 11-13-2007, 07:33 PM

Well I thought since ci moment thread is there and I got my hearing aid today and can't say what I heard on that thread so I thought I'll start one for HA too so mine's I heard word " that lawyer" from tv so super clear it surprised me cuz I never heard word so clear in my life but it been only 5 hours so other word still sound garble so it'll take some time for my brain to adjust (been 4-5 years since my brain heard talking sound and quieter) and I also heard bird singing too

So what's your's?

shel90 · 11-14-2007, 07:07 PM

My HA moments are being able to understand the words my husband uses when yelling at our son with my back turned. Matter of fact, as I am sitting down and typing away, I am hearing him say "Nathanial, no!" "Nathanial, It is hot." "Nathaniel, sit down!"

LOL!!!!

I love to hear my son babble to himself.

highlands · 11-15-2007, 11:59 AM

My most haunting moment was the time when I was able to tell where the chirping bird sounds were coming from.. with bilateral hearing aids, I was succesful and turned my head up and smiled

R2D2 · 11-15-2007, 10:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shel90

My HA moments are being able to understand the words my husband uses when yelling at our son with my back turned. Matter of fact, as I am sitting down and typing away, I am hearing him say "Nathanial, no!" "Nathanial, It is hot." "Nathaniel, sit down!"

LOL!!!!

I love to hear my son babble to himself.

LOL! Better him than you. I'd much rather be in front of a computer than reasoning with my 4 year old any day.

hohDougRN · 11-16-2007, 04:33 AM

Well I became quite disturbed to hear my exwife ridculing me when she is walking away. Ewww!

I made note to self: turn off at home!

KarissaMann05 · 11-17-2007, 09:04 PM

I remembered I used my HAs, I could hear a sighing, my name, door closed/ opened, and some sounds that what I can hear. Not much to say..

One time, I still remeber that, i was so young, I actually could hear a loud cracking lighting from brownish-tan clouds and orangish yellow sunset sky. I love it. Now, i'm kinda of miss to hear how it sound like when I look at thunders.

and, I wish i can hear a word but i only understand is my name.. :/

shel90 · 11-17-2007, 09:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by R2D2

LOL! Better him than you. I'd much rather be in front of a computer than reasoning with my 4 year old any day.

Not a 4 year old..a 2 year old!!!

jewels10 · 11-21-2007, 08:23 PM

Ah - I remember one of the first things I heard after i got my aids was the sound of running water in the sink. It crackled!

carrigantm9636 · 12-13-2007, 12:47 PM

I had a hearing aid (or rather, anti-hearing aid) moment last night at my little brother's band concert. His middle school band was TERRIBLE, all squeaky etc, so I just turned my HAs off! Mom turned to me and said, "THAT IS SO NOT FAIR!" I signed to her "Hahaha" and she doesn't know sign so I saw her say to my friend who was there, "Did she flip me off?!" Lol!

AliciaM · 12-13-2007, 01:42 PM

one of the things i thought was cool, yet now find annoying lol is when it's reallyyyyyyyyy windy outside...the first couple times was cool.and then i started to turn off my ha's when it got windy lol

LittleCat · 01-18-2008, 02:23 PM

I have a couple HA moments-and today is only the 2nd day I have had them after losing hearing at 15 monthes and now being 38-

I stopped at the store and they had a video playing advertzing. It stopped me because while I was 6 feet away it sounded so sharp, so rich, so clear. I didn't realize that I was literally standing there staring with my jaw hanging down-I was soooo facinated-then a lady came up and asked me if I needed some help!

Once I got home, I put some ice in a plastic cup, poured some coca-cola in and was so blown away! I had never heard the sound of ice crackling-it sounded like crystal clear glass shattering. I kept tapping the cubes with the straw to keep replicating it...then left a friend a phone message explaining exactly what it sounded like-forgetting that this would not be so facinating to her!!

cmarie519 · 01-21-2008, 05:30 PM

The first time I heard the home phone ring I was amazed! I could hear it across the house.

Babyblue · 01-21-2008, 05:38 PM

I was five years old when I got my first HA in 1979. I remember it being LOUD and hearing the traffic outside of the audiologist office, horns honking, Cars zooming by, and I remember being scared. It was just so loud. My mother said I threw them in the toilet and flushed it. Mom got me another set and watched me like a hawk after that. I still wear my hearing aids everyday.

AlleyCat · 05-06-2008, 03:34 PM

Thought we could post funny or interesting or unusual moments relating to our hearing aids!

For me: When I was 17, I was in a car accident because of a seizure. Both sides of the car were completely smashed in so paramedics had to carry me out through the car window (which had already shattered.) I was unconscious at the time and unable to tell them I was deaf, and somehow when the paramedics were carrying me out, both my hearing aids fell off !! (HOW??) It was February so the ground was fully covered in snow, so my hearing aids were buried. My parents went back to the accident scene the next day and couldn't find them, and we all went back in April after the snow melted and we did find them. Guess what ?? They STILL worked !!!!! After 2 months in wet and freezing snow

~♥~Pinky~♥~ · 05-06-2008, 04:35 PM

Whew! You're so lucky!

August · 05-06-2008, 09:00 PM

one time i met this dude. he had hearing aids and a deaf accent. i turned the lights off, grabbed his hearing aids, and made a run for it in the dark.

i never saw that dude again. i still have those hearing aids, and i still cry myself to sleep laughing about it. every damn night.

this story may or may not be true.

AlleyCat · 05-06-2008, 09:07 PM

Boult · 05-06-2008, 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by August

one time i met this dude. he had hearing aids and a deaf accent. i turned the lights off, grabbed his hearing aids, and made a run for it in the dark.

i never saw that dude again. i still have those hearing aids, and i still cry myself to sleep laughing about it. every damn night.

this story may or may not be true.

then you are a HA theif eh? (yes I do see the last sentence but still asking)

August · 05-07-2008, 02:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boult

then you are a HA theif eh? (yes I do see the last sentence but still asking)

thief?

no

i just borrowed them indefinitely.

***VamPyroX*** · 05-07-2008, 02:29 AM

Here's the story of my wonderful old analog hearing aid...

I got it in 1993. I've jumped in the swimming pool a few times with it on. I've forgotten to take it off when I got in the shower. My sister's dog chewed on it a couple times. I dropped it in the parking lot one day, it rained overnight, I found it the next day. I've gotten it wet from heavy sweat a lot of times. I've been hit in the head a few times right on the ear while I was wearing my hearing aid.

Yet, it still worked... until last year. That's 14 years! Whew!

NorCal20 · 05-07-2008, 05:01 AM

it was happened in few days ago, when i was on duty. One outside guy asked me, "Is that new bluetooth earpiece?" i was like, "wtf?". It got me laugh so hard and told guy, "No, its my hearing aid, its specifically design for hard of hearings and deaf also, people who have difficult to hear so they wear it to hear better". The guy said, "Oh, my bad".

***~SG~*** · 05-07-2008, 05:43 AM

Mod's note:

Thread moved to proper location.

Pepsi · 05-07-2008, 07:26 AM

If you think getting ear wax out of a hearing aid is a bitch,try hair dye.

***VamPyroX*** · 05-07-2008, 02:25 PM

I was talking to the manager of a store one day and he noticed my hearing aid. He then told me that there was another manager in the store who might have been deaf, but had "a weird thing that goes into her head". I said, "Yeah, a cochlear implant." He replied, "Umm... I think so. Dunno."

ismi · 05-07-2008, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pepsi Lover

If you think getting ear wax out of a hearing aid is a bitch,try hair dye.

Yeah ... my hearing aid still has a pink tint on one side (it's silver) from when I dyed my hair purple about two years ago.

Buffalo · 05-07-2008, 04:04 PM

When I was little, I had a body type hearing aid. My mother told me that my hearing aid feedback sounds like whistling. My father had attempted to teach me to whistle. One night, I took off my hearing aid and held it under the table. I turned it on and move the earpiece back and forth from the body part so it would sound like whistling. My dad really had thought I was whistling and he was smiling like crazy. You should have seen his face fell when I show him my hearing aid.

JennyB · 05-07-2008, 06:27 PM

Without my hearing aids I hear absolutly nothing.

A few months ago one of my teachers was freaking out at the class. I wasn't in trouble, or part of the group that was. I was sick of listening to him yell so I took out my aids and put them on the desk infront of me...it made him madder...but I couldn't hear it!

~♥~Pinky~♥~ · 05-07-2008, 06:57 PM

I put my hearing aids in box. I forget turn to switch off. My fiance came home from work. He heard something like funny sound. When he blow a breath. He heard it's sound like whistling. He think it's so weird sound. He blow the breath again. He heard again. He didn't find where it coming from. He found my hearing aids' switched on. It made me laugh so hard!

11-13-2007, 07:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
SkullChick Lil Ci-Borg Chick Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Middle Of Nowhere, Delaware Posts: 570	HA Moments Well I thought since ci moment thread is there and I got my hearing aid today and can't say what I heard on that thread so I thought I'll start one for HA too so mine's I heard word " that lawyer" from tv so super clear it surprised me cuz I never heard word so clear in my life but it been only 5 hours so other word still sound garble so it'll take some time for my brain to adjust (been 4-5 years since my brain heard talking sound and quieter) and I also heard bird singing too So what's your's? __________________ [Left Ear] Implanted 1/15/08 with Nucleus Freedom! Activated 2/12/08 with Freedom BTE Link for my Cochlear Implant http://skullchick.blogspot.com Link for my Blog unrelated to cochlear Implant http://skullchickworld.blogspot.com

11-14-2007, 07:07 PM	#2 (permalink)
shel90 Sun Whorshipper Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: A Desert Rat that has found herself in Maryland Posts: 13,818 Blog Entries: 1	My HA moments are being able to understand the words my husband uses when yelling at our son with my back turned. Matter of fact, as I am sitting down and typing away, I am hearing him say "Nathanial, no!" "Nathanial, It is hot." "Nathaniel, sit down!" LOL!!!! I love to hear my son babble to himself. __________________ ~Shel~

11-15-2007, 11:59 AM	#3 (permalink)
highlands In Love & Happy Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: in an inland city Posts: 4,077	My most haunting moment was the time when I was able to tell where the chirping bird sounds were coming from.. with bilateral hearing aids, I was succesful and turned my head up and smiled __________________

11-16-2007, 04:33 AM	#5 (permalink)
hohDougRN OH my knee hurts Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: utah Posts: 1,372	Well I became quite disturbed to hear my exwife ridculing me when she is walking away. Ewww! I made note to self: turn off at home! __________________ *Doug*

11-17-2007, 09:04 PM	#6 (permalink)
KarissaMann05 Jessie's Character Join Date: May 2007 Location: Oregon Posts: 2,245 Blog Entries: 6	I remembered I used my HAs, I could hear a sighing, my name, door closed/ opened, and some sounds that what I can hear. Not much to say.. One time, I still remeber that, i was so young, I actually could hear a loud cracking lighting from brownish-tan clouds and orangish yellow sunset sky. I love it. Now, i'm kinda of miss to hear how it sound like when I look at thunders. and, I wish i can hear a word but i only understand is my name.. :/ __________________ Credit by KarissaMann05 Sexual Orientation: Semi-Asexuality, Semi-Hetersexuality Status: Unavailable Single Guy: Great personality, Christianity belief, and has a plenty of patience Last edited by KarissaMann05; 11-17-2007 at 09:06 PM. Reason: add one more thing

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11-21-2007, 08:23 PM	#8 (permalink)
jewels10 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Ontario Posts: 25	Ah - I remember one of the first things I heard after i got my aids was the sound of running water in the sink. It crackled!

12-13-2007, 12:47 PM	#9 (permalink)
carrigantm9636 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Staunton, VA Posts: 22	I had a hearing aid (or rather, anti-hearing aid) moment last night at my little brother's band concert. His middle school band was TERRIBLE, all squeaky etc, so I just turned my HAs off! Mom turned to me and said, "THAT IS SO NOT FAIR!" I signed to her "Hahaha" and she doesn't know sign so I saw her say to my friend who was there, "Did she flip me off?!" Lol!

12-13-2007, 01:42 PM	#10 (permalink)
AliciaM Lil Italian/Jamaican Chic Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ottawa, ON Posts: 761	one of the things i thought was cool, yet now find annoying lol is when it's reallyyyyyyyyy windy outside...the first couple times was cool.and then i started to turn off my ha's when it got windy lol __________________ My Blog http://myhohlife.blogspot.com/ *Phonak Una* Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. Helen Keller Alicia

01-18-2008, 02:23 PM	#11 (permalink)
LittleCat Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 31	I have a couple HA moments-and today is only the 2nd day I have had them after losing hearing at 15 monthes and now being 38- I stopped at the store and they had a video playing advertzing. It stopped me because while I was 6 feet away it sounded so sharp, so rich, so clear. I didn't realize that I was literally standing there staring with my jaw hanging down-I was soooo facinated-then a lady came up and asked me if I needed some help! Once I got home, I put some ice in a plastic cup, poured some coca-cola in and was so blown away! I had never heard the sound of ice crackling-it sounded like crystal clear glass shattering. I kept tapping the cubes with the straw to keep replicating it...then left a friend a phone message explaining exactly what it sounded like-forgetting that this would not be so facinating to her!!

01-21-2008, 05:30 PM	#12 (permalink)
cmarie519 Cmarie519 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Kentucky Posts: 6	Phone The first time I heard the home phone ring I was amazed! I could hear it across the house.

01-21-2008, 05:38 PM	#13 (permalink)
Babyblue Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 816	I was five years old when I got my first HA in 1979. I remember it being LOUD and hearing the traffic outside of the audiologist office, horns honking, Cars zooming by, and I remember being scared. It was just so loud. My mother said I threw them in the toilet and flushed it. Mom got me another set and watched me like a hawk after that. I still wear my hearing aids everyday.

05-06-2008, 03:34 PM	#14 (permalink)
AlleyCat Chicken in a Cat Suit Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 579	Funny/Interesting Hearing Aid Moments Thought we could post funny or interesting or unusual moments relating to our hearing aids! For me: When I was 17, I was in a car accident because of a seizure. Both sides of the car were completely smashed in so paramedics had to carry me out through the car window (which had already shattered.) I was unconscious at the time and unable to tell them I was deaf, and somehow when the paramedics were carrying me out, both my hearing aids fell off !! (HOW??) It was February so the ground was fully covered in snow, so my hearing aids were buried. My parents went back to the accident scene the next day and couldn't find them, and we all went back in April after the snow melted and we did find them. Guess what ?? They STILL worked !!!!! After 2 months in wet and freezing snow __________________ Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

05-06-2008, 04:35 PM	#15 (permalink)
~♥~Pinky~♥~ Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2,937	Whew! You're so lucky!

05-06-2008, 09:00 PM	#16 (permalink)
August Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 930	one time i met this dude. he had hearing aids and a deaf accent. i turned the lights off, grabbed his hearing aids, and made a run for it in the dark. i never saw that dude again. i still have those hearing aids, and i still cry myself to sleep laughing about it. every damn night. this story may or may not be true.

05-06-2008, 09:07 PM	#17 (permalink)
AlleyCat Chicken in a Cat Suit Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 579	__________________ Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

05-07-2008, 02:29 AM	#20 (permalink)
*VamPyroX* bloody phreak from hell Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Hell Posts: 26,613	Here's the story of my wonderful old analog hearing aid... I got it in 1993. I've jumped in the swimming pool a few times with it on. I've forgotten to take it off when I got in the shower. My sister's dog chewed on it a couple times. I dropped it in the parking lot one day, it rained overnight, I found it the next day. I've gotten it wet from heavy sweat a lot of times. I've been hit in the head a few times right on the ear while I was wearing my hearing aid. Yet, it still worked... until last year. That's 14 years! Whew! __________________ Check out my city... CLICK HERE! (If you already visited yesterday, visit again today!)

05-07-2008, 05:01 AM	#21 (permalink)
NorCal20 -superdorky :o) Join Date: May 2008 Location: Golden State Posts: 1,571	it was happened in few days ago, when i was on duty. One outside guy asked me, "Is that new bluetooth earpiece?" i was like, "wtf?". It got me laugh so hard and told guy, "No, its my hearing aid, its specifically design for hard of hearings and deaf also, people who have difficult to hear so they wear it to hear better". The guy said, "Oh, my bad".

05-07-2008, 05:43 AM	#22 (permalink)
*~SG~* Super Moderator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 3,263	Mod's note: Thread moved to proper location.

05-07-2008, 07:26 AM	#23 (permalink)
Pepsi The One and Only Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,449	If you think getting ear wax out of a hearing aid is a bitch,try hair dye. __________________

05-07-2008, 02:25 PM	#24 (permalink)
*VamPyroX* bloody phreak from hell Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Hell Posts: 26,613	I was talking to the manager of a store one day and he noticed my hearing aid. He then told me that there was another manager in the store who might have been deaf, but had "a weird thing that goes into her head". I said, "Yeah, a cochlear implant." He replied, "Umm... I think so. Dunno." __________________ Check out my city... CLICK HERE! (If you already visited yesterday, visit again today!)

05-07-2008, 04:04 PM	#26 (permalink)
Buffalo Labra lege! Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,260	When I was little, I had a body type hearing aid. My mother told me that my hearing aid feedback sounds like whistling. My father had attempted to teach me to whistle. One night, I took off my hearing aid and held it under the table. I turned it on and move the earpiece back and forth from the body part so it would sound like whistling. My dad really had thought I was whistling and he was smiling like crazy. You should have seen his face fell when I show him my hearing aid. __________________ It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. - Gilbert Chesterton

05-07-2008, 06:27 PM	#27 (permalink)
JennyB Deaf and living my life! Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Toronto, Ontario Posts: 328	Without my hearing aids I hear absolutly nothing. A few months ago one of my teachers was freaking out at the class. I wasn't in trouble, or part of the group that was. I was sick of listening to him yell so I took out my aids and put them on the desk infront of me...it made him madder...but I couldn't hear it! __________________ Jenny~B http://journysofadeafgirl.blogspot.com/

05-07-2008, 06:57 PM	#28 (permalink)
~♥~Pinky~♥~ Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2,937	I put my hearing aids in box. I forget turn to switch off. My fiance came home from work. He heard something like funny sound. When he blow a breath. He heard it's sound like whistling. He think it's so weird sound. He blow the breath again. He heard again. He didn't find where it coming from. He found my hearing aids' switched on. It made me laugh so hard!