Tek_Freek

Tek_Freek t1_iz60azx wrote

Reply to comment by rustyjus in Hearing aids might be an important tool in the effort to prevent cognitive decline and dementia. The use of hearing aids was associated with a 19% reduction in long-term cognitive decline. The use of these devices can even benefit those who have begun to show a decline in cognition by Wagamaga

I'm guessing things are TOO LOUD. When I first got aids I was sitting on our deck with my wife in the Spring. I noticed the birds were loud. Annoyingly loud. I mentioned it to her and she said they weren't any louder than normal, I just hadn't heard them for so long I forgot. Over time I got used to the increase in volume.

They may not be comfortable. My first pair hurt my ears. I now have Phonak with the rubber "bulb" and once in I don't feel them.

The first indication they were working was a quarter I got in change. I shook the change to settle it before putting it in my pocket and heard a high pitched sound. It took me a bit to figure out I hadn't heard the sound of a quarter in years.

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Tek_Freek t1_iz5zelg wrote

Reply to comment by fido4lilchops in Hearing aids might be an important tool in the effort to prevent cognitive decline and dementia. The use of hearing aids was associated with a 19% reduction in long-term cognitive decline. The use of these devices can even benefit those who have begun to show a decline in cognition by Wagamaga

I was given some "aids" that were supposed to negate my tinnitus by emitted sounds that would nullify the tinnitus. (I know I've the terminology wrong)

What I got were two sounds. They never did make it work.

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Tek_Freek t1_iz5yzfh wrote

Reply to Hearing aids might be an important tool in the effort to prevent cognitive decline and dementia. The use of hearing aids was associated with a 19% reduction in long-term cognitive decline. The use of these devices can even benefit those who have begun to show a decline in cognition by Wagamaga

Something I read once that still explains me trying to hear others when they talk.

This is a quote from a forum where people are talking about hearing aids and is one of the best descriptions of what I go through just to talk to others I've ever found. It's a doctor telling a mom what her 13 year old daughter is going to experience from congenital hearing loss.

"(Hearing) people use selective inattention and decide casually what to tune out. But your daughter has to use selective attention. She has to constantly decide when to listen and then devote energy to doing so. It's an exhausting process that requires both physical and cognitive concentration. When you see two men talking while leaning on a fence and looking at a mule, you hear the conversation and choose to ignore them or not. She has to process the scene, decide if it's important, cognitively evaluate context to decide they might be talking about the mule, then apply all that to decode the sounds she hears."

If they are talking fast I'm not going understand it. Hearing aids or no.

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Tek_Freek t1_iuji3hs wrote

Reply to comment by PersephassaThePurple in Considering doing brick ourselves - No idea what we are doing by PersephassaThePurple

Then it's on the HOA not you. The one we moved into in Las Vegas gave out manuals, had an orientation meeting, and a group meeting of all new homeowners. An example of a well run HOA. The woman who runs it emails information constantly to the members - about 12,000 of them.

We no longer live there. We got tired of the landscape (desert), the heat, and the rapidly shrinking Lake Mead. That part of the country is in for a world of hurt - sooner rather than later.

We are moving to another over 55 HOA in Williamsburg, VA. We can hope it's as well run as Sun City Summerlin is.

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