A Little Update for Y'all

Hey everybody. I'm just posting this little update to check in on y'all and give a bit of a progress report. It seems Dreamwidth is chugging along as usual, and that's great to hear because I love it here.





And now for the update from my neck of the woods. Drum-roll please! I got the hearing aids, and I'm wearing them as I write this. The brand is Jabra, which I hadn't heard of before for the most part but these seem to be doing the trick. As with anything new, I'm still getting accustomed to them but that's okay. I already had an incident with them. It seems the volume on at least one of them went way down, even when I had them at full volume. I was afraid it might've been a malfunction of the hearing aids themselves, but as I found out just yesterday this wasn't really the case. I was at my parents' 2-flat again for a Fourth of July cookout, and I had my father take a look. He has worn hearing aids, and is therefore familiar with them in general. Upon examining mine he immediately noticed some earwax on one of them. The earwax was blocking the part that actually delivers the sound. So he proceeded to clean both of them off, and after dessert he cleaned out my ears again. Then he put my hearing aids back in my ears, and sent me on my way. But I definitely recommend this brand, and for those of you in the area I also recommend the audiologist who sold them to me and my father. I never would've thought to go to Costco for hearing aids, but this guy is very knowledgeable and patient.





For those of us using VoiceOver on an iPhone, the app that controls these hearing aids is a bit confusing but it appears you don't even need the app. I first tried out this app without Screen Recognition, and it left a bit to be desired. But with Screen Recognition on, the app was slightly more accessible to me. However, thanks to Apple's wonderful and extensive settings app on iOS all I have to do is go in there to make any adjustments. The Jabra website, which seems to be pretty accessible with VoiceOver for the most part, indicates that these hearing aids will automatically adjust the settings based on location of the wearer. I guess at this point it's too soon to tell as I haven't been many places, and also because of the afore-mentioned incident. However, if the company's own website states that their product will adjust automatically then that's pretty accurate. The app to which I'm referring is called Enhance Pro, and I believe it's available on Android as well as iOS. I have yet to find a way to obtain a user guide/manual in accessible format, but hopefully that'll happen very soon.





Well folks, that's all for this entry.