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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2009 22:13:31 GMT -5
Well everything went well this evening considering.....It was a tribute to my MIL with a slideshow of her on the pull down behind me, while I sang Serenaded By Angels.. I am usually ok after the first note......lol.... as I was this time. However, I was not sure I was going to be able to do it.
I woke this morning, put my hearing aid in and nothing. I changed batteries, still nothing, I knew it had died. I can hear nothing without it.
I figured I would have to miss everything all day. Nope, Hubby got up told me get dressed, I did and we took off for the closest Walgreens. We bought one of those things they adverstise on TV that looks like you have a phone in your ear, but is actually an amplifier.
The sound is terribly distorted but at leasr I can make out what is said. I was quite worried tonight about hearing the music, and it did drown my mic out for me, I could not hear me..........lol, a good thing, but i could hear the music. so all is well.
So in the morning, I have to go dish out about $1500.00 for a new ear.
P.S made it back in time for Sunday School also.
Anita, I teach too, 1st and 2cd grades.
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Post by Jillian on May 17, 2009 22:37:33 GMT -5
You had to be in a right panic?...talk about Murphy's Law, so glad you were able to work around the situation, though difficult to sing if you can't hear yourself
Did someone video tape you singing......would be great if we could share this with you?
You know us Welsh folk.....we come out of the crib singing.....true!
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Post by Anita on May 17, 2009 22:42:56 GMT -5
OMG Flopsie, I teach 1st and 2nd grade and hubby teaches the young teens with a friend of his. Isn't that cool?
I am so glad you got through tonight. Not having your hearing aid must have given you a fright, but it sounds like you handled it well.
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Post by silk on May 17, 2009 23:55:43 GMT -5
Flopsie I'm glad all went well for you after the initial anxiety. I used to sing and my knees always knockd before hand.
My hearing is not brilliant and I have difficulty hearing softly spoken people and movies. I'd like to ask you a question if you don't mind...should I hold off as long as possible...this is what a friend who has an aid told me I should do. I just don't know.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2009 0:01:32 GMT -5
Glad you got through it all Flopsie... I would have been freaked
(of course so would everybody else if I sang)... I'm having
troubles hearing too *sigh* guess that's just part of old age...
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2009 5:19:28 GMT -5
Silk, If I were you, I would get help with my hearing as soon as possible. When I started losing my hearing I was not even aware of it, then it came to the point I was doing a lot of lip reading.
It came to a head when I went to my interview for nursing school. I was in with the interviewer, who was a man but softly spoken, and my habit was....if I could not hear something, I would just smile and not resond.
Well, this was an important meeting for me and he asked a question, to this day, I still don't know what it was, but I just smiled and said not a word. He got a strange look on his face and asked another question but this time, he placed his hand in front of his mouth, as if to brush something away.
I, again, had no clue what he said, but I did hear his next words and they were......"You can't hear me, can you"?
Wel, long story short, I did get into nursing school but only after getting the hearing aid and also having surgery to replace the stapes in one ear, the surgery was unsuccesful.
I can't not tell you the feeling I had the first time I walked outside and heard the birds singing. You see, I didn't know I could not hear them.
A word of warning tho, if you do wind up with an aid, remember there may be things that will scare you to death, like the first time the motor on the fridge kicked on, I almost had a heart attack, but my brain got used to the fact that I could hear and adjusted.
Good luck with whatever you decide just remember life is to short to miss a lot of beauty.
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Post by silk on May 18, 2009 5:39:08 GMT -5
Thank you Flopsie for that advice. I can emphasiize with the appointment you had. What a good thing that the gentleman understood what was happening.
I have a tremor so my GP referred me to a Parkinsons Disease specialist as a precaution. During the consultation I couldn't hear everything the doctor was saying and was very tense trying not to blink in case I missed something while concentrating on trying to read his lips. So when he wrote to my Gp he mentioned that my face was very immobile and I didn't blink much....a symptom of PD. Next time I saw him I explained. LOL.
I'll make an appointment soon when I have a few others out of the way.
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Post by Betsy (RIP) on May 18, 2009 7:27:06 GMT -5
Sounds like you came thru very well Flopsie. I wish I could have heard you sing.
A friend of mine just got one of those aids that look like a phone. He's too stuborn for a real hearing aid. He can't believe the difference with the phone on. Now that he can hear so well, Walt and I won't be able to talk about him when he comes to visit. LOL And our conversations will be much more relaxed.
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