It's letting me know today that my laptop keyboard needs cleaning (tap tap tap TAP), the dishwasher, airfryer and cat fountain all produce noise at exactly the frequencies that needed to be boosted and half the sounds made by people on TV do and half don't. Oh, and I need to hear just how loud breathing is with hayfever, apparently.
I have two settings on the HA itself - normal and restaurant (presumably that's turning down speech frequencies and messing with the directional mic) and scope to fanny around with the app for custom ones. Nothing too fancy here, it's a Starkey NHS model designed for BTE but being used as a RIC. And they haven't given me any spare domes (the smallest size available) or any micro tubes - just got to hope I don't snap it or lose them or something, I guess. The hearing centre seems very much set up for working with retired people, I think, not the likes of me, as it's all 'you come in and we'll retube/give you batteries' rather than 'here's what you need, we'll check in on you in three months and if all's well, you can have a year's/3 years' supply'.
Not looking forward to work tomorrow - compulsory attendance at a noisy event with about 400 people, most of whom are fucking loud at the best of times.
I know it's got to improve and the difference when I take the thing out is huge, so I accept I need to get over myself and cope but I'm being ungrateful and struggling with that, sciatica, end of term burnout/huge data tasks to complete in the next day due to an unfeasible workload all year and the thought that I'm clearly not being of much use to man nor beast at present. I'm hardly the confident, glam sort at the moment, as much as I wish I was. This is just highlighting just how not anything of the sort.