A series of unfortunate events happened to me last week. My Mac laptop bit the big one. I knew it was coming; so I prepared. I moved all my files to my external hard drive. There was nothing to do but get new one. I had already done my research so I marched into the not-so-local Apple store and showed the “gatekeeper” exactly what I wanted. “No problem,” he said. “Wait right over here.” So I waited and I waited and I waited. I asked if he was sure someone was coming to help me and he suggested I go to the order/pickup desk. Why didn’t he say that in the first place! Do people not do that at the Apple Store?
Finally I headed home with my new laptop. I bought a MacAirBook with a M3 chip. Don’t ask me what that means; all I know is that I supposedly could now connect my hearing aids to my laptop. (You’d think that Apple would have figured this out a long time ago since they were the ones who came up with Made-for-iPhone hearing aids.) But finally, after 4 long years of Zoom meetings being loudly broadcast throughout my house, I was going to be able to listen directly into my hearing aids. Better late than never, I suppose.
Now for the main event: connecting via Bluetooth. Should go smoothly, right? But no, it wasn’t smooth at all. After asking on Apple support pages and watching YouTube videos, I had them connected. Or so I thought. Nothing. So I went through all the steps again. Nothing. I had to be doing something wrong. And then … sound in my left ear! And then it went away. I gave up, figuring I’ll wait until my next Zoom meeting.
At that Zoom meeting, I start playing around with the menu bar and this pops up (or down, I suppose): Do you see that little ear at the bottom?
I clicked on it. And like magic, I had sound in both my hearing aids!
Those of you who enjoy sound coming in directly to your hearing aids can imagine the whoop of joy that came from me. Thank goodness I was muted!
The real test will be at my next Zoom meeting … will it all come together again? Fingers crossed.
