Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that doesn’t justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like a hippo
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
It’ll, I’m sure, take time to get used to the hearing of my own voice amplified thing. The aids don’t, certainly at the moment, feel particularly intrusive in my ears, but I guess YMMV on that.
They told me about the “own voice” thing, it was the first thing I noticed on initial fitting. I guess I’ll get used to it, and maybe it’ll make me speak quieter but then Mrs Floofah won’t hear what I say, so a complete reversal of our recent communication difficulties!!
I sang semi-professionally for quite a few years. Used to use in-ear monitors and they do a similar thing - you do get used to it pretty quickly, or at least it becomes less annoying!
The audiologist said that if after a while I felt my voice echo was unacceptably intrusive, they could adjust the aids settings. It’s early days for me with the aids, but I’m pleased to say they do seem to be working well.