Not much change to report this week. I did crank the volume up to profile 4, the max I have, last week. I don’t notice much change except perhaps a little more background noise. I can’t be sure if that’s the environment or the device but I will try turning down the sensitivity because that would reduce environmental noise but should have little to no impact on device noise.
I have been out pruning and picking up clippings in the orchard again this week. I do notice that the birds are sounding more natural and I can hear more of them.
The fellow I have been working with remains a struggle to comprehend. Not as bad as it was at first but his accent – heavy South African Zulu – is very difficult. My wife doesn’t have as much problem so clearly her hearing is better than mine. I can understand him better than the day we started.
I continue to watch TV news for about an hour each day without my hearing aid and I start each day without my hearing aid which means I get at least 2 hours a day depending largely on the implant. Also when I’m around large machinery, like the tractor, I turn the heard aid off so that makes me more dependent on the implant.
As soon as I am finished with the pruning process I will be back to ear training in the morning in earnest. It has been difficult to do that for the past 4 weeks because we start very early in the orchard. I expect once I go back to ear training things will start to improve more rapidly.
Stay tuned 🙂