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Return Trip

Posted on 12.12.2000 by Stephanie Booth

I just noticed that I hadn’t written down the “tale” of my return trip to India. Maybe I’ll clean up the end of my logbook and add it…

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I believe now that depression can never be fully grasped by mental health professionals who have not experienced it. Though I can’t claim to know everything about depression, I have a unique and powerful perspective: as a suicide survivor, as a sufferer myself, as a patient, and as a therapist. I know that people who are depressed work very hard at living, but much of their effort is fruitless, a waste of energy. It is as if they are in over their heads and don’t know how to swim; the harder they work, the worse things get.

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rachelclarke: We have a moving train. I repeat! Our train is moving!!!! Hallelujah!!! #swtrains

Ewan: The Russian Grannies. Thankfully there are two spare grannies to substitute if required. And no cakes fell this time!!!

Tuesday 20:02

win: found the right pair of socks to prop up my dead earphones on my head

Tuesday 19:30

ah oui on est pas dimanche soir #retourdevacances

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Tuesday 17:27

I love that widex describe the MDEX as "stylish" in their brochure. It looks like a 10-year-old phone. http://t.co/1MMlUimk

Tuesday 17:22

Thinking about ways I'd like to hack my MDEX if I end up buying these widex HA

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En train de planifier une sortie bateau dimanche, j'espère qu'il fera beau!

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Home, thanks for the welcoming sun! (@@ Genève Aéroport (GVA) w/ 6 others) http://t.co/SKbSru5R

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Monday 20:33

Anyway, I bought a set of those rechargeable batteries. Of course 8 hours are way to short for my day, so I planned to switch to normal batteries or another set of rechargeable batteries after that. The first problem I ran into was that the charging station that was available from Siemens required to put the complete hearing aids with the batteries in there. There was no way to only put the batteries in there. Of course that is not possible if you still want to wear the hearing aids after the first 8 hours of the day. I wonder who thought of this stupid design.

From my own experience I guess that one reason for this is that the tuning never takes place in a realistic hearing setting, but in the audiologist’s soundproof cabin. The only information he has is what I describe about that situation where I was not able to understand my friend at that party last week. In comparison, if you bring your car to a car repair shop and describe in what situations it makes problems, they for sure will try to reproduce the situation in order to examine it and fix the problem. The only thing audiologists do sometimes is taking you out on the street for a minute or two [1].

Same applies to when my hearing aids break when I was doing something that might be considered “risky” with respect to the hearing aids. For example, am I allowed to attend a martial arts class with my hearing aids? Can my insurance refuse to pay the reparation if they break during that class? What about when I accidentally have a shower with my hearing aids on? (It happens because when you wear them every day, you forget that you are wearing them.) What about when I attend an open air concert, it starts raining and I did not seek cover, because I did not want to miss the awesome performance? Those situations might sound constructed, but actually they happen if you are are not an old grandpa, but a young person with an active life.

What I want here is that interested and skilled patients are allowed to get a “hearing aid tuning license”. Similar to a driving license, I imagine that you take some classes and maybe have to do a test and in the end you are allowed to tune your own hearing aids. Most hearing conditions are permanent, which means as a young person, you are facing several decades of having to wear hearing aids. In that situation you might as well spend some weeks on learning how to tune your hearing aids yourself in order to be more independent.

This goes along with the 2nd point of my wishlist. Hearing aids and peripheral hardware should be compatible independent of the vendors. For this, standards for hardware and software have to be established. Those standards should be public. This would make the hearing aid market more open and lively since it would open doors for new companies and open source projects to develop hardware and software that is compatible to the established vendor’s devices and as such attractive for the customers.

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Stephanie Booth lives in Lausanne, Switzerland with her cat Bagha.

Her domain of expertise is online culture and communication (or "social media consultant/strategist", or whatever the hot name for all this web 2.0 stuff is these days). Ask her if you want to know more about what she does.

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