Lost Item Recovered in Holly Springs
I got a call from Bill, a nice gentleman in Holly Springs who had lost a hearing aid while collecting and moving brush and sticks. Bill’s house sits next to a pond and twice each day, the gnats come out to pester anyone in the backyard. Bill was working with gloves on, and in one of his « get-away-from-me-gnat » swipes with his gloved hand, he had inadvertently knocked the hearing aid out of his ear. It was a little later that Bill realized the hearing aid was gone. He had looked all over where he had been working and had swept the area with a magnet, hoping the hearing aid would stick to the magnet, all with no luck. We then made arrangements for me to come out and search. He had the remaining hearing aid that I was able to scan, but it gave only a very tiny, weak signal on my detector. (There’s just not enough metal in a tiny hearing aid to give much of a signal on the detector.) Anyway, Bill showed me where he had been working and we started looking – Bill with his magnet and me with my detector. After maybe 35 or 40 signals that turned out to be false alarms, I did find the tiny hearing aid. If it had been one of the hearing aids that has the big battery resting behind the ear, this would have been much easier. As you can see in the pictures, Bill’s was the type that fits entirely in the ear canal, giving me almost no metal to detect. After finding it, Bill and his wife explained that he had an upcoming appointment for an upgrade and had he arrived with only one hearing aid in hand, he would have gotten no trade-in credit on the new device. Glad it worked out for them – another happy ending!
