“One classic moment I can recall where my hearing let me down was at the dinner table. My family were talking about how much they enjoyed a leg of lamb and my son who also has hearing loss turned to me and said, ‘Mum, I’d like to go to Legoland!’ and I replied, ‘me too’. Neither of us realised our mistake as I too couldn’t hear the conversation!”
“I was fitted with two Oticon hearing aids and the first thing I noticed was how many sounds there were! Everything had a sound, which sounds silly, but I’d missed out on this for many years I didn’t know how noisy life really was. Wind blowing, the murmur of a fridge, footsteps, traffic, water going down a plug hole, birdsong! These were all news sounds to me which I’d missed out on for years!” and the first thing I noticed was how many sounds there were! Everything had a sound, which sounds silly, but I’d missed out on this for many years I didn’t know how noisy life really was. Wind blowing, the murmur of a fridge, footsteps, traffic, water going down a plug hole, birdsong! These were all news sounds to me which I’d missed out on for years!”
“As soon as I wake up, I grab my hearing aids and put them in, I feel lost without ‘my ears’. My husband and children have noticed a huge difference and we no longer have the constant mishearings and pretend one-word conversations where I would just nod and say yes when often they’d asked me a question!”
