whiskeyonesix
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Hi Folks,
After a couple of month of lurking, I thought I'd best create a username and sign in
My name's Tom and I'm a 38 year old happily married english Ex-Pat living in Perth Australia. I've got mild to moderate hearing loss on my left side, coupled with moderate to severe loss on the other. It's been gradually getting worse over the past 4 years and is starting to impact my job - I work in the transport field and really need to hear properly.
The Specialist tells me this is hereditary Otosclerosis, and that I will need 2 Aids or maybe a stapedectomy operation should I find that Aids aren't right for me.
I was fairly surprised with it being hereditary as none of my parent or grandparents wore aids. I worked as a contractor for the British and Swedish Armed Forces years ago in fairly noisy environments and thought it may have been related to that, but apparently not..
Anyway, I'm just saving up for the Aids at the moment ( Didn't realise they were expensive!), I had a fitting for a BTE Unitron Quantum a couple of weeks ago so we will probably see how I go with these ( The Saleswoman - sorry Audiologist, tells me that there's lots of different digital devices out there - but I thought it best to do my homework on different brands before I shell out the cash!)
But thats enough about me
After a couple of month of lurking, I thought I'd best create a username and sign in
My name's Tom and I'm a 38 year old happily married english Ex-Pat living in Perth Australia. I've got mild to moderate hearing loss on my left side, coupled with moderate to severe loss on the other. It's been gradually getting worse over the past 4 years and is starting to impact my job - I work in the transport field and really need to hear properly.
The Specialist tells me this is hereditary Otosclerosis, and that I will need 2 Aids or maybe a stapedectomy operation should I find that Aids aren't right for me.
I was fairly surprised with it being hereditary as none of my parent or grandparents wore aids. I worked as a contractor for the British and Swedish Armed Forces years ago in fairly noisy environments and thought it may have been related to that, but apparently not..
Anyway, I'm just saving up for the Aids at the moment ( Didn't realise they were expensive!), I had a fitting for a BTE Unitron Quantum a couple of weeks ago so we will probably see how I go with these ( The Saleswoman - sorry Audiologist, tells me that there's lots of different digital devices out there - but I thought it best to do my homework on different brands before I shell out the cash!)
But thats enough about me
