Story number 3: FM receivers with a Zoomlink

Mrs. D.: Our patient fit in November 2008 with Naida V UP’s. She has a very severe loss in both ears with her left ear falling at 60 and 70 across the board and her Right ear not going above 90. Her discrimination at her evaluation was 40%. She is a great lady with very realistic expectations about her hearing loss. She is not ashamed to admit to people she has a hearing loss and will ask them to speak up or repeat. We worked diligently with aural rehab and managed to get her discrimination up to 52%. She was still having trouble hearing television, in the dining room, and other group situations. Enter the Phonak FM system. We put a FM receiver on each instrument and linked them with a Zoomlink. We found a good position spot by her television speaker to put her zoomlink and it was game on. When she turns on her FM to watch television she turns the volume on the television so low that I struggle to hear it. She hears it loud and clear. She says she can get up and go to the bathroom and she can still hear the television. WOW! She took it to a meeting and placed her Zoomlink on the table by the speaker and heard every word. She said before the FM she couldn’t hear anything that the speaker was saying. Double WOW!! Just another one of those extra things that can be added to enhance an already fabulous instrument.