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But first, a bit about me. I am a senior citizen born and raised in the Midwest. Southwest Iowa actually. I served aboard the USS Hornet while in the Navy during the Vietnam war era. After my discharge from the Navy, I returned home and to my job at Union Pacific Railroad. Starting as a yard clerk in the switching yard in Council Bluffs, I then traveled the railroad helping to install and train folks about computer systems. After working for 37 years in many varied roles, I retired from the IT departme
Somewhere along the line, I came to the conclusion that I wasn’t hearing well at all. It hit me hard when I was standing fairly close to my sister-in-law and, though she was speaking fairly loudly, it actually sounded like a foreign language. So, off to the audiologist I go! Boy did I have a lot to learn. Such as, most of the time it is not about volume, but rather missing sounds because of the inability to hear specific sounds of certain pitches. For me, female voices are particularly challenging. In t