In my last post, I mentioned that the living room, hallway and my office were done by outside “professional painters”. Steph found them while watching the local news. She figured if they were good enough to appear on tv, that…
Author: Sam Spritzer
Spritzer Bedroom Renovations – a break
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In the midst of everything, Steph decided she wanted the living room and hallway redone. The living room is pretty large room and there were a lot of structural hairline cracks since the walls and ceiling are plaster. The hallway…
Clearvoice
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Today, I had ClearVoice installed on my CIs. ClearVoice is designed to automatically analyze and adapt to each listening situation, separating the distracting noises from what I want to hear most—speech. It eliminates background noises such as road noise, noisy…
Spritzer Bedroom Renovations
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With our son’s wedding coming up at the end of June coupled with the fact that we hadn’t done anything to bedrooms since moving in back in 1996, we decided it was a good opportunity to all three bedrooms. Given…
Brand bashing
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Someone recently accused me of engaging in brand bashing between CI brands. The individual cited my post, A challenge to Cochlear Americas and Med-El. The very same person cited one of my comments on a CI forum accusing me of…
Neptune – the world’s first and only swimmable cochlear implant processor
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How we do it with the loss of hearing…
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Last Friday, I found the following in my inbox on Facebook from a very dear friend who we affectionately call Bee: Hi there, I hope your recovery is going well with your ankle. You will be back out there before…
Advanced Bionics approved for Clearvoice…FINALLY!
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Advanced Bionics is thrilled to announce that we have received FDA approval today for ClearVoice! Built on AB’s proprietary HiRes Fidelity 120™* technology for high-performance hearing, ClearVoice has been designed to automatically analyze and adapt to each listening situation encountered…
A FUNNY moment…
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Ok, we’ve had our WOW moments – those times that truly take our breath away because we never ever heard certain sounds in a certain way before. How about a FUNNY moment? I was driving alone on the Thruway on…
I heard that??????
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A WOW moment worth mentioning…. At a funeral service in church this past weekend, we were still near the back of the church. There were three candles up front waiting to be lit. The person lighting them had one of…