Hearing Loss LIVE! in Five: Traveling in Cars

Let's face it traveling in cars with #HearingLoss is challenging. In this short, Chelle and Julia talk about their adventures and devices they have tried to have better communication while traveling.

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Transcript

Welcome to Hearing Loss LIVE! in Five. 

Julia: Good morning. Welcome to Hearing Loss LIVE! in Five. We hope you are remembering to like, subscribe and share our content. We have blogs, podcasts and audio Buzzsprout podcast. We hope you're enjoying your summer. We have some classes that are recorded that you can actually purchase. We have workbooks on the website, hearinglosslive com, so look into that content. Remember, we'll have classes coming this fall. If you're on our newsletter, you'll get the first round to be able to join those classes. We are going to talk travel. So Summertime is all about vacation, right? And how do you get around in the car with hearing loss, there's lots of ways, if you check out some of our older stuff, you'll see we've written a couple of times on our travels to conferences. Some of the things we've done over the years. But one of the best tools I think Chelle loves, is her Roger-On which was fun to play with last summer. Tell us about traveling in the car.

Chelle: It's one of the most challenging situations for people with hearing loss. Even though we're within six feet, there's too much road noise, motor noise, mechanical hearing picks up mechanical noise better than speech, sometimes. Even still, technology is better, but we still have issues. Last year, I had my Roger-On when Julia and I went to Vancouver to the SayWhatClub convention. And we thought we'd play with it. And we did. We did good, because traveling in the car and talking, even if I'm the passenger, both Julia and I are, whoever's-- we have to turn and still drive right. So we're talking like this. That's Julia, and after a while, your neck hurts. So I took and I pin my Roger-On onto her. It's got a clip, and we put it on her. And at first I wasn't doing too much better, and what I realized had happened was I had to shut off ambient noise in my app. Once I did that, I could hear her better. Apps have ambient noise. They call it environmental noise. It's a little sliding deal. And what it does, it leaves me a choice to turn on my hearing aids in its immediate environment, or to choose the Roger-On only. And when I'm in the car, I only need the Roger-On and the voice. We still had a miscommunication at one point, which was a lot of fun. I I looked over at Julia, she was talking, and we're driving through Oregon, pretty trees, mossy, ferns, all these kinds of stuff in the trees. Very pretty after being traveling through the desert. So at one point, she told me something about the ferns. And I was like, yeah, you know, (laughter) yeah, look at the ferns. There are a lot of ferns here and but that's not what she said. And she called me on it. She goes, Did you just bluff me? And I said, No. I said, I You said, look at the ferns. And Julia was talking about.

Julia: I was actually calling the moss, fur. I was calling the fur on the trees, or the moss on the trees fur. Look at the fur on the trees. But I'm going to caveat too, we were not looking at each other. I think both of us were looking out our windows perspectively, but it was the way you said, Uh huh, that made me, reminded me of grandma when she would be bluffing. And I'm like, oh, sorry, I just joked myself on that bluff. Sorry about that, but yeah, I was like, she's bluffing.

Julia: And it's nice that Julia calls out the bluffing. And you know, if more of our hearing partners did shows awareness for it, I want I want you to hear me, and I want to hear you. And you know, it's a validation of being heard.

Julia: Just don't look at the ferns. (laughing) Yeah, there were a lot of them. Great. Oh, sorry, that went up really quick, doesn't it? I don't think you guys can hear it, but my my timer goes off and scares me every time. There was one other thought I had, oh, it's also okay to be silent in the car. Just a little heads up and reminder out there. Sometimes the car ride and silence can be blissful and calming, and you can look at what's going on around you. Versus having to have a conversation. Just food for thought. One I like to use car car travel and quiet is can be, can be nice too. We hope you have a wonderful summer and let us know how your car rides are going. 

Bye!