you clearly have not met my grandparents with hearing issues. it’s like 50% “HUH?” and another 50% “how do you expect to hear me if you don’t put your hearing aids in??”
But when you take them out your ears are so COMFY and nobody YELLS at you and you can’t hear your husband’s STUPID looping tiktok videos playing from the next room.
Source: hearing aid haver who sometimes takes them out at home or streams podcasts through them and just communicates through pantomime and lipreading despite my husband’s patient exasperation.
Yup! They have tons of cool features nowadays. It’s a lot like wearing discreet earbuds with really good noise cancellation capabilities. They cost so fucking much though, and in the US a lot of insurance providers don’t cover them or will only cover a small percentage of the cost.
I think if you marry young, it starts at 1% and grows from there. My wife and I are approaching middle age, and we’re only unknowingly taking to ourselves about 20% of the time.
99% of marriage is sharing stuff you find and 1% asking if they heard you.
you clearly have not met my grandparents with hearing issues. it’s like 50% “HUH?” and another 50% “how do you expect to hear me if you don’t put your hearing aids in??”
But when you take them out your ears are so COMFY and nobody YELLS at you and you can’t hear your husband’s STUPID looping tiktok videos playing from the next room.
Source: hearing aid haver who sometimes takes them out at home or streams podcasts through them and just communicates through pantomime and lipreading despite my husband’s patient exasperation.
you can use hearing aids as normal earphones? :0 that’s so neat!
Yup! They have tons of cool features nowadays. It’s a lot like wearing discreet earbuds with really good noise cancellation capabilities. They cost so fucking much though, and in the US a lot of insurance providers don’t cover them or will only cover a small percentage of the cost.
I think if you marry young, it starts at 1% and grows from there. My wife and I are approaching middle age, and we’re only unknowingly taking to ourselves about 20% of the time.
Sounds wonderful. So far my experience is limited to 25 yrs of cute animal facts and the occasional “are you listening, dear?”
The trick is to have a canned sound to use to respond to something that can be interpreted as that’s good, that’s bad, that’s interesting, etc.
“Where is the ……?”