Hi There
Getting new hearing aids can be a scary but wonderful miracle. Congratulations.
I was born HOH but I didn't get my hearing aids until I was 4 years old. That was back in the 80s. ( Gosh, Im starting to feel old) Back then, hearing aids were huge! I can remember my audiologist putting them in my ear and all of a sudden, the world was screaming and yelling. I did not like them. Years went by, I appreciated them. I got a new pair after I outgrew them as the years went by.
Just last year I was able to get a pair of brand new ones. The old ones were broken and I was struggling to keep up with everyone at work and school. People would laugh at something that was being said and I would have to fake it just so I wouldn't seem out of place.
Now, putting those new hearing aids on were an even better first time experience for me. I turned them on and again the world was loud, especially the train. lol. When I got home, my cat, Star greeted me. That is when I heard the most precious and healing sound. The sound of a loving purr. She started purring right away, I heard it from several feet away. I had not heard her purr before, only felt it. I was over whelmed with such emotion, I cried. I went outside later and I could hear all the sounds of nature, I heard the birds and the horses loud and clear.
When I got to work the next day, I over heard a co worker tell a joke and normally I couldn't hear it, I laughed so hard I though I was going to fall or get in trouble. Since that day on, I was never left out again, and I had enough guts to talk to the crush I had been dreaming about every day since I saw him the first time. We are now living together and been together more than 17 months.
Getting hearing aids is going to give you so much pleasure. I know this isn't fair to other people but the sounds that keep people up all night, you can just shut them out by taking the hearing aids off. LOL.
Now I am not going to promise you that it is all fun and games either though. There is the awkward feeling when the battery suddenly dies in the middle of a conversation. There is also that feeling of insecurity about how other people are going to react to your hearing aids. (Though it is one of my insecurities, no one I cared about ever reacted bad towards them.) I was so embarrased of mine that I wore my hair down to cover them. Many people never knew I was HOH.
Again congratulations, the gift of sound is a mirable. Let us know how it goes. Welcome to AD.