{"id":23,"date":"2010-05-14T20:38:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T01:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostmyhearing.com2010\/05\/14\/abracadabra\/"},"modified":"2024-02-17T14:24:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T18:24:40","slug":"abracadabra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Abracadabra!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So here’s where things stand now.\u00a0 I tried the Widex hearing aids and they were better than I ever dared to hope.\u00a0 But\u00a0I wanted to make a careful and informed decision so I took them back to try the Siemans. Well, let the confusion begin!\u00a0 There were many things about the Siemans I liked, but I kept thinking the Widex might have sounded better.\u00a0 But the Widex don’t have custom user programs – they’re on or off and I could make them louder or softer, but they didn’t have specialized programs to take out background noise and enhance voices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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It occurred to me that I might have been romanticizing the Widex in my mind because they were the first hearing aids I’ve had in 2 1\/2 years that made sounds come back for me. Was I in love with them becuase they were great or because they gave me back my hope?\u00a0 Can you see the lightbulb go on here?\u00a0 Darling Hubby called Wonderful Audiologist and asked, “Is it possible for her to have them both at the same time so she can compare them in the same situations?”\u00a0 Wondeful Audiologist agreed and I then had both the Widex and the Siemans.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Widex sound was a little more clear, but the Siemans blocked out background noise. More and more I found myself putting in the Siemans and putting the Widex away.\u00a0 If I could have two sets of hearing aids, I’d have taken them both, but alas, I can only have one.\u00a0 Well, Wonderful Audiologist did some programming magic and made the Siemans sound more like the Widex.\u00a0 Abracadabra! I was in heaven.\u00a0 And I gave back the Widex and I’m keeping the Siemans.\u00a0 There is still more programming she can do, but these last few weeks have been the best hearing weeks I’ve had in years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I’m not knocking the Widex by any means.\u00a0 I loved them and the time may come when I’ll go back to them, but for now, I’m thanking my lucky stars to have the flexibility of the Siemans.\u00a0 Before I go, here’s a funny story and I swear it’s true.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I was driving and waiting to make a left turn when I heard a knocking sound in my car.\u00a0 “Oh noodles,” I thought.\u00a0(Ok, it wasn’t actually “noodles.”)\u00a0Something is wrong with the car.\u00a0 I\u00a0was thinking\u00a0I better call Darling Hubby in case it wasn’t safe to drive, when I noticed the knocking sound seemed to be in sync with the turn signal light.\u00a0 I turned off the turn signal and the knocking stopped. I turned it back on and it started again.\u00a0 And then I realized I’d never heard the turn signal in that car before.\u00a0 Wow, it’s loud!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So here’s where things stand now.\u00a0 I tried the Widex hearing aids and they were better than I ever dared to hope.\u00a0 But\u00a0I wanted to make a careful and informed decision so I took them back to try the Siemans. Well, let the confusion begin!\u00a0 There were many things about the Siemans I liked, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}