Saturday, February 27, 2010

My dog ate my hearing aid! :(

Well not the whole hearing aid. She ate the silicone mold and chewed up the BTE. Sigh.

My fault for leaving them in the den, on a side table. I was going to move them before bedtime, but forgot. Thank gosh she didn't eat/chew the other one. But she picked my right aid, that's my best aid. My left ear gets some improvement with the aid, but not much. I rely on my right hearing aid.
 
I can't remember how long I've had these aids. Has it been over a year? My hope is that they are still covered by insurance. If not, it's going to cost me $1500 to replace it. It's possible that the BTE still works but some of the punctures look deep. 

Why do these things happen on a Friday night? The audiologist's office is closed for the weekend. Sigh.

I'll head over to the audiologist Monday morning and see if the right BTE is a goner. If so, maybe they can switch the left aid over so I can use it in my right ear with a temporary foam sponge mold, while I wait for the new aid to arrive. Sigh.

4 comments:

Megan said...

Yikes! I hope you can get a replacement, or that it still works :(

ms toast burner said...

Oh no!

The manufacturer of my hearing aids will replace my aids once if lost, stolen and I suppose eaten! ;-) I believe that that only applies for the first year but maybe Phontak has a similar policy? and if so, I hope they're younger than a year.

Good luck on Monday. :-)

Steve said...

What is it with dogs and hearing aids? I think they like the smell of ear wax or something!

Hope you get these sorted out.

Cheers,
Steve.

HOH Canadian said...

All sorted as of today. Went in this morning for a quick fitting of my new aid. I'm good to go.