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It's interesting.
Actually, I didn't realize I needed any type of
hearing assistance,
although there was a lot of signs. My wife was always
telling me that
I talked too loud, I didn't hear the seat belt
go off,
and those type of things.
But it really wasn't until
I was at work one day,
we came out of a meeting, and my boss said "Have you had your hearing checked
lately?"
I said "No, why?" He said "We noticed sometimes you sound like you're
screaming."
I said, "I didn't realize that."
So all my hearing tests previously and relatively recently
had indicated my hearing was pretty good.
So I went ahead and had another hearing test and found out that actually my left
ear --
my hearing in my left ear is not as good as the hearing in my right ear.
Because of that I actually was talking at a much higher volume that I needed
to at meetings,
and a lot of people thought I was a lot more aggressive than I really am.
So
fortunately, I got the opportunity to get a PSAP
put in my left ear, get it
fit correctly,
put it on the
correct setting,
and since that time I've had no problems whatsoever and a lot of people
including my wife have commented, "You know, you don't scream as much anymore.
Your voice is much calmer a lot of times.
So I was glad to get that feedback even though i didn't know it was going
on originally.
Using the PSAP has been very interesting for me too because
when I first got it I just wondered, "I wonder how many
comments I'll get about this,
having the PSAP in my ear and how self-conscious am I going to be having it?"
The first couple days I wore it I was pretty
self-conscious of it and put my hand up to it a lot.
But anymore I just wear it all day,
put it in the Dry & Store at night. I want to go to bed and get it out in the
morning.
I don't even feel like it's there. It has been very very
helpful.
So I definitely would recommend it to folks.
Get any kind of
comments from your spouse or friends or anything that
you're hearing okay,
or you're talking too loud.
Also the thing that I had really seen
that helped me too that I didn't realize, when I get into noisy situations,
for instance going into a restaurant,
used to be a lot of times I would have to ask the waiter or waitress,
"Could you repeat that? I didn't quite hear you."
and so forth, but I found now that I don't have to do that.
I can hear what they're saying,
and
be able to carry on a conversation in a restaurant without feeling like I had to
strain or ask people to say what they'd said again.
So it's been
really, a big improvement to me that I didn't even anticipate,
actually,
until I got the opportunity to get a PSAP and have it.