{"id":32876,"date":"2021-11-12T05:43:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T05:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nuheara.com\/usa\/?post_type=video&#038;p=32876"},"modified":"2021-11-15T18:51:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:51:38","slug":"its-been-life-changing-customer-spotlight-2","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/www.nuheara.com\/usa\/video\/its-been-life-changing-customer-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Been Life Changing | Customer Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years as an explosives technician, Ed was left with hearing loss that he thought only hearing aids could help with. Until he found Nuheara.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ed | Affordable Hearing Aid Alternative | IQbuds BOOST\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eTLOMYTrb6k?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My name\u2019s Ed McKinley from Phillip Island in Victoria. I think I\u2019ve had pretty bad hearing loss for a long time. I was an electronic-explosive technician for a number of years. I had a lot of concussion sounds that, even while wearing ear protection, still affected my hearing. If there was any type of background sound, I actually couldn\u2019t hear anything. Good friends of mine were like I was yelling at them, and I noticed when I met new people I\u2019d sort of say hi like that, and they\u2019d sort of step back.<\/p>\n<p>In relationships with your partner, there\u2019s so much loss of communication is what I\u2019ve found, and it ends up being arguments. I\u2019ve got two young children, and a lot of the time I would see the kids playing, but I didn\u2019t know what they were talking about. I didn\u2019t hear any of the things they were doing. I just took it for granted that I just didn\u2019t hear things. It was just the way it was.<\/p>\n<p>Finding out the cost of hearing aids scared me a little bit. I was told that they\u2019d be starting between $5,000 to $7,000. And I\u2019d heard that there was a product on the market that was sort of for people who weren\u2019t ready for a hearing aid. And I came across Nuheara and the IQbuds, and people were sort of raving about them.<\/p>\n<p>I downloaded the IQbuds EarID app. Once I completed it, it plays a little tune, and it\u2019s literally like you\u2019ve got earmuffs on. And then as soon as they switch on, the earmuffs come off, and you can hear the world. This is what I felt.<\/p>\n<p>I could hear someone singing, and I was like, wow. it was just such a beautiful, soft tone that I hadn\u2019t heard for a long time, probably since I was a child when my mom used to sing to me when I was in bed. And I just got up straight away, and I just flew out that door. And I looked, and I saw my little girl there. And I said, was that you? And she goes, yeah. She goes, what\u2019s wrong? And I was like, just sing again. And she goes, I sing all the time. And I was like, yeah, but I don\u2019t hear you.<\/p>\n<p>She wanted to know why I was crying and if she needed to get mom or not. And I said, no, no. And she said, are they happy tears or sad tears, dad? I said they\u2019re happy tears because I can hear you.<\/p>\n<p>With the IQbuds Boost, just going for a walk, the sounds you can hear\u2013 there\u2019s a lot of bird life. Like that bird just then, I heard that you know what I mean, and that really impacted me. That was a little snappy. And I can\u2019t explain the feeling of being able to go from where I was to be able to hear like that again.<\/p>\n<p>Just so many different sounds\u2013 the kids playing. I was like, wow. I don\u2019t remember hearing all of this.<\/p>\n<p>That looks good. And you\u2019re drawing a plane\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Both my children are on the spectrum. They suffer from ASD. They are really distracted at school by background sounds. I let my daughter try them on, and\u2013<\/p>\n<p>I can hear my pen a lot better. It\u2019s a bit like eh, eh.<\/p>\n<p>She goes, I really like them. And I said, yeah, they\u2019re good, aren\u2019t they?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve now just recently got my first radio-control boat, so I\u2019ve been running that around, and it definitely increases the experience of when the boat runs past. You know, bzz. That\u2019s the whole thing with motorsport is you love the sound of it.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I like about the way they look is it does sort of, for a young person\u2019s point of view, it looks like you\u2019ve just got normal headphones in. I don\u2019t even notice they\u2019re there. Ever since I\u2019ve got the IQbuds Boost, I\u2019ve just noticed that generally, I\u2019ve just been more calm. Just to be able to hear like this, it\u2019s been literally life-changing.<\/p>\n<p>(SINGING) If all we have is breath my love, we\u2019re only here so many years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years as an explosives technician, Ed was left with hearing loss that he thought only hearing aids could help with. 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