Can you hear me NOW?...

Hubby has had problems with his hearing most of his life (and I mean beyond the typical deaf to the nagging wife hearing loss that many husbands seem to have.)

Understandably it's made college classes even more difficult for him, as if a 30-year gap in education didn't make things hard enough.

He finally had a hearing test conducted at the college clinic... and sure enough he has 40% hearing in one ear, and 67% in the other. Overall, that means he only receives about half of the information being said by instructors. So, the college issued a listening device to him. It's an FM Loop System, where the instructor wears a mic and Hubby wears the corresponding ear piece.

Mic attached to bear

Hubby's estatic that he can hear again. He says he can hear clearly, whereas his normal hearing is like being underwater. I can't tell you how thrilled he is!

Although it's supposed to be for school use, he had to try it out at home too. I'm always complaining about the TV being turned up so loud, so he clipped the mic on the bear and set it up in front of the TV. Worked like a charm. Hopefully no more nights of me not getting to sleep because he's watching movies with amplified explosions. Sometimes it's like trying to sleep in a war zone.

Another thing that's cool about the system- when Hubby walks outside he can still hear the TV. He even walked halfway down the street, and was still in range.

This leads to some additional entertainment on my part too, of course. He's out in the yard casually listening to the TV.... when all of a sudden he hears loud snorting in his eardrum... the great dane had decided to sniff the mic, hahaha.

I'll just have to be careful from now on what I say when he's out of the room... ;)