Howdy Y’all! Thought I would regale everyone with tales of my first time in public with hearin’ aids. All in all it went well. I didn’t have any issues with things like the organ bein’ too loud even with bein’ within four feet of it. The acoustics in the church are pretty good, so no issues with extraneous noise like I feared there might be. I did hear a whole lot better which was wonderful. I caught every word of the homily and heard everything durin’ the readin’s and prayers of the people. This was good because both of the readers have soft voices. The bells were loud! Again, I think this was due to the fact that I was actually hearin’ ‘em pretty close to the way they actually sound. One funny thing, to me, happened. I had Chalice duty. We take Communion out to anyone who is not able to come to the Communion Rail. I assisted Priest with that today. As we were walkin’ up a side aisle to where someone was, I was behind him and noticed his shoes squeaked really loudly. I have done this many times before and never noticed it. HEE!
The Parish hall durin’ brunch was also not too bad. I did need to turn the volume down a notch, but otherwise I was able to sit at the table and hear the conversation for the first time in forever! I do believe I will be happy with the things.
TLDR; I like my hearin’ aids.