Thanks for your observations.  I can wait, but willl keep looking at the
issue.  Mobility is how I feel good about me, or at least it used to be.  I
just won't talk to foreign women with high voices on the phone.


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Lowell Miller
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 2:28 PM
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Subject: Re: off topic

Hello Howard,
I do have $6000 hearing aids and I do know just exactly what you are talking
about!
I cannot hear those door jams, etc, like I use to at all!
Let me tell you, my experience is that the hearing aids do not bring back
those concepts of hearing we all need as blind persons!
My mobility skills are not near what they use to be!
It is very disconcerting to say the least!
At least, that is my experience, Howard.
Perhaps others have had better success than I have.
73.
Lowell  W8QIY
----- Original Message -----
From: "howard kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 3:27 PM
Subject: off topic


> My apologies, because this is very off topic.
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> I am beginning to think seriously about hearing aids.
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> Women's voices with foreign accents are really giving me trouble on 
> the phone.
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> The problem is that all my mobility is done on facial vision, or sound 
> shadows, or what ever you want to call it.
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> I tried my friend's $6,000 hearing aids, and they were amazing.
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> Amazing that is until I couldn't hear the sides of a door jam, or the 
> widening ambience of the stairs in front of me.
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> Is it possible to have hearing aids, and still hear the things or lack 
> of things that I need to hear to be a good traveller?
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> So far, I am able to hear cars soon enough to cross the street safely.
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> Its just the things I use like trees and poles that I don't want to loose.
>
> Its not sound, as much as the absence of sound that I listen to.
>
> I am sure many of you do the same, and I am sure many of you have 
> never heard what I am talking about.
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> Howard Kaufman MSW LCSW
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