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Hearing loss: What do event planners need to know?
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Nov 7, 2021 | Replies (38)Comment receiving replies
Joyces, I think I understand what you've got. You have a landline phone connected to the modem provided by your cable company. The telephone that is connected to the modem is a cordless remote system. You carry the remote phone when you're near the house but you need to amplify the sound from it. There are several options. If you have a telecoil in your hearing aids, then you may not need anything other than to switch the telecoil on when using the phone. There are landline phones that will allow you to get those calls transferred to a cellphone. One thing that helps people with hearing loss is being able to hear the phone with both ears instead of the ear where the handset is placed. This is why speaker phone helps. So, if your hearing aids have a telecoil already, make sure the audiologist enables them. This may solve your problem without having to buy a new phone. You can review phone options at HARC (www.harc.com) or Harris Communications (www.harriscomm.com).
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tonyinmi, yes, you're correct...I have a landline phone system connected to a cable modem. It's a special system that allows calls or intercom between handsets hundreds of feet from the base. My husband, who's unable to walk outside or any distance, can call me while I'm working outside. I know that I can set my cell phone to stream sound into my aided ear (I only hear on one side), but I don't know how to do that with our phone system. Another item to add to my list of questions for the audiologist! Thanks for the links, also! I managed to get by for years after Meniere's moved into my right ear--my "good" ear was only affected by increasing age-related deafness. Then, a year ago, Meniere's went bilateral, further compromising my "good" ear. I bought an aid at that point. May 24, at 6:45, the Meniere's monster returned in full force, right in the middle of a speech I was watching. Because my Meniere's is triggered by low hormone levels, I was able to reverse some of the loss by temporarily increasing HRT. Now, I have good days where I can hear a fair amount with the aid in my right ear...and bad days where the world's a mystery. Hearing loss caused by Meniere's fluctuates, with serious distortion and recruitment on really bad days. On bad days, I often cannot stand to wear the aid, due to recruitment, which makes sudden sounds slice through my head like a knife. Fortunately, perhaps due to daily VRT, I haven't experienced the balance/vertigo/puking problems since I've gone bilateral.
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A lot of states are giving free captioned phones - Pa is one