Peggy’s Story with some extra’s:

This is a story about Peggy one of our patients in NPR. Peggy was fit with Phonak Extra’s(2) on delivery everything went well and she could hear better, but the real test will be out in the real world. She volunteers with SOLVE (clothes, car seats for expectant mothers that don’t have a lot of money) and she is on the phone and talking with people everyday. On our first visit she said she could hear better but there were a few complaints about environment changing to often making her ability to hear in a noisy situation a little more difficult.

Well, the new Certena and Versata’s have just came out and I talked about upgrading to the new model of Certena. I ordered her the new Certena and after the first follow-up visit she could tell a huge improvement. She was able to give me great feedback about the new product versus the old. She said she could go into different environments and it wasn’t noticeable when it was switching, and she also mentioned that the sound quality was a lot sharper. In a noisy situation like a restaurant she said she could hear her friends at the table for the first time. WOW!!!!! Just imagine changing places with her and going to a restaurant with your friends and can’t participate in the conversation, how would this make you feel? Then you just got a new hearing instrument and you go out and are able to converse, now how would you feel about yourself? Pretty cool….