had you forgotten during your deaf years , the noise of a flushing toilet ...?
No, that really isn't how my hearing is/was. I can hear in the lower frequencies normally, but very poorly at higher frequency. I think that is a common hearing problem.
I did not really understand what that was doing to my perception of sound. Many things, like a toilet flushing, are a mix of low and high frequency. I could hear the toilet flush, but was only hearing the lower frequency part of the sound.
Now that I hear both the sound is much more... for the lack of a better word, rich, or maybe complete. And I have had this problem most of my life so no I don't remember hearing any other way.
Sounds are not painful to me, the audiologist set the hearing aids at about half the strength he thinks I will ultimately need and plans to turn them up and fine tune over the next few weeks.
However I am hearing lots of noises that I think my brain will learn to filter out, things like the sound of my pants rubbing on my legs and crackling joints... the list is long. Not painful, but a bit confusing and distracting. Interesting though.
All the noises my car makes are a lot louder, may have to buckle my seatbelt more often and won't be leaving the turn signal on without noticing.
Have not tried listening to music yet, that's next.
including chocolate ice cream
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