roflmfao  

a bit to much of the egg nog at sluggos table this season?

Real cable guy. here Iam  I,ll send you my info.

My wife has a slightly different twist on this subject, she says, " I don't try to remember the unimportant stuff", my problem is trying to remember what she says is and isn't important. I do wear hearing aids and sometimes still do not recollect something she claims she has told me. They are cranked up about as far as this set can go.  W/o them I am very hard of hearing and miss most if not all of what she might say before I get them in the AM our after taking them out in the PM. When the nurses were trying to wake me up in the hospital last spring and I did not respond. She suggested to them to put in my hearing aids, they tried putting them in the wrong ears, finally Dr. came over to try, he got my attention by hitting my chest gently and asking me how I was, I did answer OK and how are you. They were satisified I was going to come out of the Dr. induced coma OK and I did. Loss of hearing is the pits as glasses can correct many eye problems but hearing aids only help and I don't think can ever give back some features of regular hearing. Large noisy groups are all but impossible for me to hear in, even with pretty expensive behind the ear digitals.

Gentlemen, it is a burdon we must bear.

Max- the best technology out there today  for handling background noise are directional microphones.  if your bte's don't have, try some- I think you'll like em.  But you are so right, the ha's only help so much.