Hearing aids and Monday
Oct. 1st, 2024 06:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareina On Friday evening my right hearing aid wasn't working properly. This sometimes happens when moisture gets in the tube between the hearing aid itself, and the part that goes in my ear. This time taking it apart and blowing moisture out the tube/ear inset didn't help, so I looked closer, and saw moisture in the clear plastic extension from the hearing aid onto which the tube attaches. Not good, as sound doesn't transmit through water. So I took the little mini pipe cleaner thingy and carefully used it to extract the moisture, doing my best not to push it further through. But still no sound getting through. But it was nearing time to sleep, so I left it out and ignored the problem till bedtime.
Saturday morning I checked and the sound still wasn't working, so I found my old hearing aids, and used one of yhem instead. Not as good of sound, but way better than nothing.
I checked it again on Sunday morning and Monday morning, and while a little more sound was getting through the tube, there was clearly some blockage. The technical hearing aid help center in Umeå is at the hospital, about a 10 minute walt from my office door, through the hospital to their 8th floor office, and they open at 09:00, on a walk-in basis.
So I decided to head over there, but got busy listening to the "welcome to your new job at the University, this is what you need to know" videos, and didn't leave my office till 09:32. When I arrived I took number lap 13 from the dispenser, and saw that they were on number 5, and realised I hadn't brought my sewing. Worse than that, neither had I brought the case with the hearing aid that needs help. So I walked back to my office, grabbed that case (but not the sewing, oops), and returned to the hospital. When I got back they had only gotten up to number 7, so I still had plenty of time, and no sewing project.
So I did some yoga. The room was full of people 15 to 40 years older than I, and i may have done a few show-off poses when I realised they were watching. When I got to flying pigeon one of the people waiting commented on it, and we got to talking. We kept chatting till my turn (she was number 15), and I really enjoyed it. She was long since retired, and described herself as nearing 90. She had grown up in the countryside near Umeå, went to Stockholm to study, and then came back north. She's been living in Umeå itself since 1959. I kinda regret not exchanging contact details, I liked her.
But I have learned my lesson, if I ever again need to take a hearing aid in, time it to be rhere at 09:00 when they open. It was 1.5 hours total time, and it took the technician perhaps 30 seconds to sokve the problem.
I took the "normal" bus home (the one that departs about 8 hours after the morning bus arrives), and it was 20 minutes late leaving the city center, and spent another 10 minutes sitting at the bus stop before mine, and then we had delays at the construction zone, so I didn't get home till almost 19:00, more than two hours after I left the office. But I made good progress on my sewing.
Nonetheless, any day I don't have to stay late for an afternoon meeting, I should plan to take a much earlier bus and work on the bus. Better still will be to work from home, but I kinda want actual work, as opposed to settling into the job tasks, before I do that. T. did say yesterday that we will discuss what I will actually be doing during this morning's weekly meeting.
Saturday morning I checked and the sound still wasn't working, so I found my old hearing aids, and used one of yhem instead. Not as good of sound, but way better than nothing.
I checked it again on Sunday morning and Monday morning, and while a little more sound was getting through the tube, there was clearly some blockage. The technical hearing aid help center in Umeå is at the hospital, about a 10 minute walt from my office door, through the hospital to their 8th floor office, and they open at 09:00, on a walk-in basis.
So I decided to head over there, but got busy listening to the "welcome to your new job at the University, this is what you need to know" videos, and didn't leave my office till 09:32. When I arrived I took number lap 13 from the dispenser, and saw that they were on number 5, and realised I hadn't brought my sewing. Worse than that, neither had I brought the case with the hearing aid that needs help. So I walked back to my office, grabbed that case (but not the sewing, oops), and returned to the hospital. When I got back they had only gotten up to number 7, so I still had plenty of time, and no sewing project.
So I did some yoga. The room was full of people 15 to 40 years older than I, and i may have done a few show-off poses when I realised they were watching. When I got to flying pigeon one of the people waiting commented on it, and we got to talking. We kept chatting till my turn (she was number 15), and I really enjoyed it. She was long since retired, and described herself as nearing 90. She had grown up in the countryside near Umeå, went to Stockholm to study, and then came back north. She's been living in Umeå itself since 1959. I kinda regret not exchanging contact details, I liked her.
But I have learned my lesson, if I ever again need to take a hearing aid in, time it to be rhere at 09:00 when they open. It was 1.5 hours total time, and it took the technician perhaps 30 seconds to sokve the problem.
I took the "normal" bus home (the one that departs about 8 hours after the morning bus arrives), and it was 20 minutes late leaving the city center, and spent another 10 minutes sitting at the bus stop before mine, and then we had delays at the construction zone, so I didn't get home till almost 19:00, more than two hours after I left the office. But I made good progress on my sewing.
Nonetheless, any day I don't have to stay late for an afternoon meeting, I should plan to take a much earlier bus and work on the bus. Better still will be to work from home, but I kinda want actual work, as opposed to settling into the job tasks, before I do that. T. did say yesterday that we will discuss what I will actually be doing during this morning's weekly meeting.