Hearing Aids (I'm experiencing a whole new world)

[T. Wm. HALL]

Howdy,

I am probably not alone when I mention the fact that I suffer from significant hearing loss.

I have been plagued by hearing loss since childhood. I have worked in some noisy professions, (Mechanic, Logging, Truck Driving) and now the Grinders, Forge, and Ringing of the Anvil take it's toll. I haven't always taken care of it as good as I should have. I have a renewed lease, and the benefits are wonderful!

Today I met with an Audiologist and after some in depth hearing tests, and consultation, I was fitted with hearing aids. I immediately heard things that I never thought possible. My wife told me the look on my face was priceless, which brought her to tears, and with her in tears, the big softy that I am followed right behind....:)

If any of you have thoughts of such prosthetics, please take serious consideration into them, in the several hours that I have had them in I am amazed by the things I have been able to hear. The T.V. is at half the volume that it used to be, and much to my wifes pleasure, she doesn't have to repeat herself constantly.

The hearing aids that I was fitted with were $4500 for both ears. But to me the benefit is priceless. I'm far from hired on as the spokesman for Beltone, but I just would like to share the difference that it has made already in my life, and could surely do in yours!

Here is a link to the model which I have. http://www.beltone.com/welcome/marq.aspx Please feel free to PM me for any further information if you'd like!

Have a great night!!

Trevor

[Gary Hill]

Good for you Trevor! I want and need the same, but I am going to do it and not let my family know. I want to hear what they have been saying about me in front of my face that I haven't been able to hear!:eek::D

[T. Wm. HALL]

Howdy,

I also wanted to add, I am not old, but in my younger years I thought I was invincible. Once things such as hearing and vision is gone, it is hard to regain, and expensive if possible at all. Things we often take for granted....

Everyone please take care of what hearing that you have. I was initially having a hard time prior to my visit today thinking that Hearing Aids are only for 'Old Folks'....the only pictures they had in the brochures surely had many years on me. It made me come to some changes in my ways!

I didn't take care of my hearing while I should have, and I didn't realize how much I had lost until it was restored today!

Gary, I think I no longer have the 'Selective Hearing Mulligan' to use with my wife any longer. It will be interesting to hear people talk smack about me, not knowing that I can hear them now. ;)

Have a good night!

Trevor

[Gary Hill]

There are benefits from the bad hearing, I get to ignore boring conversation even if I can hear enought to know I don't want to hear.:D

[Jack Evers]

Trevor

Mine aren't Beltone, but are similar both in price and style. I had lost the higher ranges by high school (probably due to guns - nobody thought about ear protection in the '50s). 'Course loosing the the high ranges meant I had trouble hearing women - like my wife. It used to drive her nuts, that I could hear a car slow down on the highway and turn in the front gate, but couldn't hear the phone in the other end of the house. I had tried some other styles in the past and didn't like them, but the open ear style is great.

[JimBondra]

Excuse me but, would ya'll mind speaking up! Me and Dick Fanguy, Rick Burton, Patty Stiller, Bob Pethick, John Blombach, Tom Stovall, Jaye Perry, Smitty, and a whole bunch of others can't hear ya!!!!!

[vthorseshoe]

I too have trouble hearing.
I was discussing this today with another farrier.
Funny how all of a sudden this post appears.

Thankyou for posting it Trevor....;)