Well this is something.\u00a0 I spent an hour and a half writing a blog for this post and saved it numerous times while editing.\u00a0 I clicked “Publish” and the whole thing disappeared.\u00a0 Only my title remained.\u00a0 It was a good one, too!\u00a0 Darn!<\/p>\n
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Anyway, I started off by apologizing for not writing anything since July.\u00a0 That’s an indication of how busy my summer was and how busy I’ve been.\u00a0 Since I have the (not so) new hearing aids, I’ve been out and doing more things.\u00a0 I’m feeling much more comfortable in the world again.<\/p>\n
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I had an experience last week and wonder if anyone else has ever had a similar experience.\u00a0 I was on a\u00a0tour of a huge local music store that has everything possible for the student to the pro – even recording studio stuff.\u00a0 Would you believe they had a piano that costs $180,000.00?\u00a0(I wonder if the music sounds different on that.) We went into a room that was a simulated\u00a0sound mixing studio\u00a0and\u00a0I noticed there was a big difference in the sounds.\u00a0 They were pure and clear – no echo, no fall off, no blurring, no bouncing.\u00a0 Just pure, clean sounds.\u00a0 (I still couldn’t understand speech of course, but the better sounds\u00a0gave me better cues for reading lips.)<\/p>\n
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Someone asked what the funny little squares on the walls were, and our guide explained they were\u00a0samples of acoustical materials.\u00a0 Remember my little lightbulb that goes off sometimes?\u00a0 TaDa! It was the acoustical\u00a0squares that made that room special for me.\u00a0 I want them!\u00a0 “Could I get some of those and somehow set them up around me to help me hear?” I asked.\u00a0The guide didn’t know and said I’d probably have to talk to an acoustical engineer and the whole thing would cost a fortune.\u00a0\u00a0Totally out of reach and impractical.<\/p>\n
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But what if I’m on to something?\u00a0 What if audiologists could simulate the\u00a0acoustics in that room with\u00a0these new, expensive, highly programmable hearing aids?\u00a0 Shouldn’t someone find out about that?\u00a0 Shouldn’t someone be interested in the possibility?\u00a0 Shouldn’t someone care?\u00a0 If anyone does it will be\u00a0Wonderful Audiologist and I’m sure she’ll be interested.\u00a0 But what about everyone else?\u00a0What about the people who make hearing aids? How many lives could be better if someone would take an interest?<\/p>\n
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Something that really bothers me is that though I recommended three friends to Wonderful Audiologist, only two have gone.\u00a0 She can help them, too, which is great.\u00a0 But friend number 3 isn’t going because and I quote, “I don’t have money for hearing aids and don’t know when I’ll have that much.”\u00a0 Way to go Ontario Health Care.\u00a0 With all the hype about government health care and care for everyone, she can’t afford to hear.<\/p>\n
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I may have posted before about how the government only contributes a pittance to hearing aids every\u00a0three years (I checked a previous blog, hence the edit)\u00a0or if your prescription changes enough. I was months away from being entitled to that pittance and they denied me because they said I don’t have enough hearing to consider it a prescription change.\u00a0 They said I had to wait all those months to get new hearing aids or forfeit my assistance. Which my taxes pay for by the way.\u00a0\u00a0A good portion of our taxes go to the health care system.<\/p>\n
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Thanks to Darling Hubby we took the financial loss and I didn’t have to\u00a0wait.\u00a0 My life has been so\u00a0much better because of it.\u00a0No, that’s too mild. My life\u00a0has resumed\u00a0because of the new hearing aids.\u00a0But what about people like my friend\u00a0who just\u00a0don’t have the money for expensive hearing aids? Anyway, my opinion of the health care system up here is another blog.\u00a0 Right now let’s leave it that I’m not a fan.\u00a0 Not a fan at all.<\/p>\n
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So if the government doesn’t care about people who can’t hear, who does? People who can’t hear don’t have anything to identify us to others so they won’t hit us with their cars, bikes or strollers, or\u00a0slam into us while they’re skateboarding, rollerblading, etc.\u00a0because we can’t hear them.\u00a0There are still TV shows that aren’t captioned and we’ve found the cable “On Demand” shows are rarely captioned.\u00a0 “Don’t complain to us,” says Rogers Cable. Who should we complain to? They don’t know\u00a0and won’t try to help.\u00a0\u00a0Now we’ve found some movies recorded on their system aren’t\u00a0captioned either. Commercials?\u00a0 Only a few.\u00a0 And what about movie theaters?\u00a0 Captioned theaters do exist but they are so few and far between, it’s very difficult to see a current movie.\u00a0 Movies have tons of commercials these days too.\u00a0\u00a0 What? Only hearing people shop?\u00a0 Hey world, don’t you want my money too?<\/p>\n
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Some of us can’t hear, but we are here<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hello, can you hear me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well this is something.\u00a0 I spent an hour and a half writing a blog for this post and saved it numerous times while editing.\u00a0 I clicked “Publish” and the whole thing disappeared.\u00a0 Only my title remained.\u00a0 It was a good one, too!\u00a0 Darn! Anyway, I started off by apologizing for not writing anything since […]<\/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-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}