A few quickies

As some of you may or may not know that it was my birthday on the sunday just past. I turned a year older but probably not a year wiser lol.
It was also my friend who i have known for a couple of months who is deaf birthday as well on the same day. She turned 21.
Not mentioning my age but u probably can all work it out.
As well as a good friend of mine's birthday as well. Blimey how many other people are born on my birthday lol.

One of my friends has come out to me that she is hard of hearing (HoH). I have known her for quite some time. She told me that she has been hard of hearing all her life. She also told me that she was fitted with hearing aids from an early age and she got used to them quite quickly and has been wearing hearing aids since. I am the first one of her friends that know she is hard of hearing and wears hearing aids. Basically i am the first one of her friends that she has told. She hasnt told anyone else because she is scared and nervous, etc of what they will think of her, etc. She told me because she knows that i am hard of hearing and kinda wear hearing aids.
She hides the face that she is hard ofd hearing extremely well because she wears her hair down which covers her hearing aids. Always wears it down. She doesnt have a deaf voice/accent. She also lipreads when people are facing her. I havent known up until now that she is HoH because of how well she has covered it up.

Last night/yesterday before i did the washing up I put my hearing aids in to see what i could hear. I only wore my hearing aids for the duration i washed up. And I heard noises that i have never heard before. Some noises sounded like a sloshing noises and a clanging noise and other nnoises/sounds that I heard as well. I dont know where they coming from and i didnt know what was making them.

last but not least, sometimes it seems to be more frequent that is only when i wear/put my hearing aid on and they are in, my tinnitus doesnt seemed to be fully masked by hearigng aids any more. I still can hear some tinnitus whilst sometimes i wear my hearing aids.

I forgot, my audiologis wants to see me about how i am getting on with my hearing aids and if any tweeking needs doing and to test my hearing with my hearing aids and without them. She sent me an email the other day asking me to make an appiontment with her. And see what i can hear with my hearing aids. So i better do it sooner before i forget and before she keeps and sending me reminders. The worry is how am i going to tell her that since i got my hearing aids i have barely worn them at all and since i got them i have worn them for less than an hour in total.