Recent content by Presbyter

Someone made a complaint about some, probably me, about not bowing heads, closing eyes, in a state/city funded senior center. They probably think its disrespect not bowing heads. I have a choice, lets vote: ---------------------------------------- 1- bow heads and not understand what's being...

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hey, 64 yr. georgia

I enjoyed watching "Switched at Birth" on Netflix: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1758772/ One deaf guy wasn't too happy his deaf father got CI. There were mixed emotions on who gets one and who don't want one. This guy didn't want one cause he was happy being deaf. So , maybe here, someone is...

I hope all doctors explains all risks to you. Laws were made to inform folks on the risks of drugs. Laws protects people that didn't know. Laws should be made to protect America from Trump's lies and that sort of things. You make you sound risk free. Maybe you should be informed accurately. I...

Maybe I should look it up. Let see, together: "Cochlear implant surgery is a generally safe procedure. However, it presents potential risks, such as: bleeding swelling ringing in the ear (tinnitus) dizziness infection at surgery site dry mouth taste changes facial paralysis balance issues...

I've maxed out for 60 years. I get along fine in maxed out mode. The problem with non audiologist is that there not many of those that use max out mode. some hearing aids includes power for that reason. Some are afraid to toy in the high power modes. Phonak target programmer app knows my hearing...

some were told to lie that you need hearing aids when you don't . If one don't need hearing aids, tell them they need them. Audiologist get fired and replaced with hearing aid instruments specialists which is cheap and can easily be trained to lie for profit. profit comes first before customers...

Some are fired for refusing to be dishonest putting customers first instead of the dollar. Does anyone know about such greedy practices? They even replace audiologists with newbies still under training who are told to click auto-adjust and tell them thats all you'll get and its impossible you...

i get imagery loud bangs

I'm hoh and only have hearing friends. I don't know ASL either. chat?

I think the problem stems from the Target programs which the inexperience use to program Phonak. They're trained to use auto feed back test which strips away so many valuable sounds. Most experienced audis don't use the auto feed back test. If you hear the testing beeps, you're screwed. Then...

Many large profitable hearing aid providers has taken a higher risk to hire inexperienced instrument programmers. As the result my (and thousands of others) hearing aids never got programed right. If I say I used to hear the alarm beeps , they would say you're not supposed to hear those due to...

Its like a cockroach saying, "What wrong with being a cockroach?" and the ants eat them anyway. Like Russia, they kill them anyway. I guess the devil said its wrong.

I've talked to a few audiologist who were fired for refusing to do some sort of daily report on how or why they sold or didn't sell hearing aids. How does those reporting work? In what way does the "meet the criteria" get reported to meet the amount of sales goal? Note: to meet the sales goal is...