Current mood:	drained
Entry tags:	deaf, hearing aids

Got my hearing aids this afternoon!
They will take getting used to, that is for sure. It reminds me of when I was a kid and all that wax built up in my ears and no one noticed for a REALLY long time and then they cleaned it out. When we went outside onto the streat the sound was like all in my face. The street feels the same way today. I was ok in the audiologists office, but then when I got out into the street it was a bit overwhelming, even with the aids put onto the high noise setting. She asked me to keep a log of how things go, what works what doesn't work. When I an hear people, when I can't. When sounds are too soft, when they are too loud. And the programs can be tweaked. Right now I think the prblem is that I've been living with a lot of silence for a long time and my brain is saying, WTF. In the office when we were messing with things and would pull one of the aids out after it was in for about 10 or 15 minutes it would be a real sense of disorientation as the sound just stopped, and then a sense of ease returned. It is really hard to explain.

I still had trouble with communication minus visual cues, but it was a LOT better. The audiologist said that was to be expected. I still couldn't understand a damn thing they announced on the bus, can anyone?

The audiologist said I should only wear the hearing aids a couple of hours for the first few days to try and get used to them and increase the time a little bit each day. So as to not get too overwhelmed. And that she would check the programming next time. And see what we needed to change. When she did the one test to see if I could hear the music on the computer playing, it seemed as if she needed to turn up the volum in the aid, which she expected, but wanted to wait until I had time to get used to them for a while, which made sense, and even more after walking out into the streat. Damn!

Ok. I have other things to post about from today later.