new hearing aids

I got new hearing aids today and they are wonderful! When the audiologist put them in it was like, OMG! I asked her if this was it and she said yes, this is what you've been missing! I have an appointmen in 2 weeks for a fitting test. They are digital and she adjusted them so they are not too loud. I am in the lower quadrant of the hearing test and I needed these, because I was having trouble at work hearing certain sounds. I also wasn't hearing people call my name from a distance and someone else had to tell me they were calling me. I should have been wearing them all along, because, I have been hearing impaired since I was 8-9 years old. I stopped wearing them about 15 years ago because they were giving me headaches from my work environment(ie,machines being too loud). It cost me $3900 for these which I paid for with 43 of my savings bonds and 90 hrs. of vacation I had accumulated from work. I paid $2500 today and will pay the rest in 2 weeks when I go back for my appt. Well, it was something I HAD to do and now that I have, it will be great to be able to hear at work and in general conversations.

When I went to have the hearing test done, the audiologist said to me, you don't speak like you are this hearing impaired, and I told her I had speach lessons when I was in school and had lip reading lessons done. It really helped to be able to lip read when I was speaking directly to someone. She was so surprised that I could lip read that she said I was lucky to have had those lessons all those years ago.

On to other things, it snowed last night! Just a sprinkling but it is the first snow of the season. Also, SU men's basketball started the season on Sunday and they play again tonight. YIPEE! On a rather sad note, SU fired the football coach, Greg Robinson. He will stay til the end of the year, which has 2 games left.

See ya later...