At 10:56am, I call the toll-free number for C.H.A.C. and got an appointment for today at 1:00pm. Paw accompanied me and I felt more comfortable having someone near my side after all these years.
Gary was the hearing specialist. He is either senile, deaf or both! He got two charts mixed up and thought I was John and then Tony. That’s the problem with “small business“. The price is high, the service is rather normal but the waiting line is almost non-existent.
He totally looked like James Carville! He was tall, gaunt, OLD, and his head was bald. He wore glasse, too! And his blue shirt was well pressed. He seemed to “chew his cud” every once in a while but stopped while he manually entered my “chart” of “X” and “O”. That “close encounter” was spooky, which was the word Maw used to describe the mix up. She didn’t go, though.
Anyway, I still have 3 settings and one setting that is “automatic”:
- Number One is the Normal setting;
- Number Two is the noise and/or party setting; and
- Number Three is the distant speaker setting.
According to the computer, he saw the I mostly used the default (or number one) setting and encouraged me to use the other two, even though the computer recommended deleting the feature/s, which I’m sure was something we paid for.
For the Number Two setting, I plan on using that while driving my car and while eating meals in our local McDonald restaurant where old Chinese and Filipino people, mostly guys, get together and talk. I’ll use this setting while washing dishes and cooking with Maw because the running water and working fan for the stove and oven get too loud.
For the Number Three setting, I used that while praying the rosary and while attending church. I could hear the conversation better while eating meals with my parental units. That is the only small group I could mention when the Carville clone asked me.
As for the battery, the computer showed an average of one hour difference between the batteries being used. The right would go first and then the left. He suggested that I change BOTH batteries at the same time to avoid confusion and guessing which one is to be replaced next.
