Better Hearing Consumer

I recently read an article about a woman who was suffering from some sort of chronic problem. On the scale of horrific issues with “10” being a fatal disease and “1” being ugly (but functional) feet, this woman’s problem ranked around a 3, in my opinion. “I ask myself, why me?” she says in the article. “It’s hard to accept

It’s Monday, the beginning of the week, and time to update my hearing loss To Do list. Because hearing losss is what I have as well as what I do, my list never changes much from week to week—nor does it ever quite  online pharmacy finasteride with best prices today in the USA get done.   Call the audiologist to

Note: If  you’re looking for tips on how to get oil stains out of your shirt, or how to remove old wallpaper, you’re in the wrong place. People with hearing loss deal with those issues in the same way as hearing people. This article is about dealing with noise, Enemy #1 of people with hearing loss. Housework is noisy. Yesterday,

Beth—February 4, 2014 We survived The Activation. Barbara, the audiologist, presented Tina with packs containing the two processors, the behind-the-ear version (Naida) and the clip-on version (Neptune). I had less baggage when I traveled to Australia for two weeks. Right now, we’re focusing on the Naida—the manual looks like a Tom Clancy novel, but apparently only the first 62 pages

Editor’s Note: A person’s hearing loss has a powerful impact on family members, especially spouses. But what if both partners have a hearing loss? My good friends Tina Thompson and Dr. Beth Wilson share a moving and humorous account of the early days of Tina’s cochlear implant in 2014. buy lisinopril online https://cosmeticsurgeryadvancements.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/lisinopril.html   By Tina Thompson and Beth Wilson  

(Hint: It’s not a wheelchair.)   I travel frequently for pleasure and business. My severe hearing loss poses no problem when I’m traveling with family or friends, who take over the most crucial communication chores. I depend on them to catch unexpected gate changes, pilot announcements about engine failure, and what train station we’re coming into—hopefully not the one after our destination. These

The green-eyed monster rises up in me every once in a while. I can’t help it—it’s human nature. My human nature. There are occasional moments when, stabbed in the heart with envy, I look at a hearing person (someone with no hearing loss) and think, “I wish I were you.” Usually it’s more like, “I wish I could do that!” 

Does any of this sound familiar? This hearing loss thing’s the pits.  I can’t enjoy a decent meal in a restaurant because it’s too noisy.  Hearing technology took a chunk out of my money, so you’d think that those guys would make ‘em work better. Family dinners are a noise-fest, everybody trying to out-loud the next guy – while I’m

How’s this for a salad bar of communication strategies? Hearing aids. Cochlear implants. Speechreading skills. Assistive listening devices. Telecoils and looping. Bluetooth. Captioning on TV, at the movies, on our smartphones.  Assertiveness in having our needs met. Manipulating our listening environment with lighting, good sight lines, and low-or-no background noise. People with hearing loss pick and choose the ones they

Cathy Beaton, my guest writer this week, offers a searing and honest look into the hearing loss technology that can both help us—and fail us.   By Cathy Beaton   I had been wistfully looking forward to some much-needed time off work.  And then ‘it’ began. My cochlear implant (CI) started to die, slowly. Shorter battery life and decreasing clarity. It