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From: Vixen@f11.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Vixen)
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Subject: Re: HEARING AIDS
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Date: 15 Apr 91 15:10:08 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Hi Jack,

I think I know what you mean reagrding your explaination of "making
louder don't make you hear." I think that what you describe is much
the same with me.

If I take off my hearing aids and ALD, I still "hear" loud sounds
and noise and even a loud human voice in my better ear, but, I
don't understand what I am hearing. It is all just so much
"noise!"  While I have been in and out of the music business for
much of my life and around electronic thingies, I don't really know
that much about them, but I would have thought that the best
approach, as I believe Wayne also suggested, might be to somehow
lock my Telex onto something coming through the sound console? This
because not only do I have a volume loss in my hearing, but an
"intelligibility" problem with what I do hear. In fact, you may
recall, that my loss began as a problem with speech discrimination
and just kept going.

Jack, here is an interesting thing. In response to your comment
that I should be careful with my residual hearing (being cautious
of exposure to loud sounds Et Cetera). I told my ear surgeon that I
still go to loyd concerts and I am often backstage or very close to
the sound source (amplifiers, speakers and all of that) and
expressed a concern that I might damage or hasten the departure of
my residual hearing. He told me that in my case, it probably really
was'nt a big deal and that due to the nature of my hearing loss,
there is a natural "muffling" going on and that it probably
would'nt matter one way or the other and I should just enjoy
myself.

I would be very suspicious, but my ear doc is a very good doc and
highly respected by both hearing people and the local deaf
community and a number of agencies for the deaf and hearing
impaired.  The word being that I couldnt be in much better hands.
Any thougghts?

Of course, I would imagine that there would be more possibility of
more damage being done to me having "loud sound" plugged directly
into my ear than sitting near loud speakers at a rock concert? Oh
well, I am getting totally confused.

Anyway, I thought maybe Bonnie could wire me into the drummer and I
could use that to keep time? Sort of a human metronome!

Keepin' the faith!

.                             Vixen

..."It is'nt over until they all come home!"

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