This morning I got my new hearing aids!
Last year I noticed that I couldn't hear quite as well as I used to. My hearing isn't as bad as Bill's but I was missing a lot that I didn't realize. For instance, I couldn't hear the turn signal clicker on my car. When I watched my Netflix DVD's, it seemed that I could never get the volume up high enough. I guess I was in denial for a long time, comparing my hearing loss with Bill's. Bill's is much worse. My hearing problem finally came to the fore last month when I almost completely lost the hearing in my right ear because of ear wax buildup. That put a scare into me. Thus when I went to my audiologist to get that impacted ear wax cleaned out (and it was a big buildup) I took a hearing test. Yes, the audiologist discovered that I was missing the high pitches.
What a revelation when the audiologist put in my hearing aids. Almost as much a rebirth as my new cataract surgery! Now to get used to this new sense. I mean I hear everything, even my feet scrapping the walkway outside to our front doorway. Everything!
I hear the birds tweeting. I hear sound form my car engine when I pulled my car into our garage which I haven't heard in years. At first I thought there was something the matter with my car then I remembered from long ago, that's the sounds my car's engine makes when I turn it off.
Now to get my new DIRECTV Genie. I can't stand watching and listening to TV with commercials!
