Better Hearing Consumer

When talking about hearing loss and its impact on our lives, we usually discuss the meaningful issues such as communication access at work, how it affects our family interaction, accepting it as a reality in our lives.  Important, life-changing stuff.   But accessible mani-pedis?  There’s not much in the respectable hearing loss literature about how communication issues affect the more

Adventure time for the Hearing Husband and me!  In an unprecedented move that has shocked our family and friends, we sold our house and are taking some time to figure out where we want to settle next.  In the meantime, we have downsized our living quarters to a beautiful 5th wheel named “Flag”.  I decided it needed a name—not only

online pharmacy provigil buy with best prices today in the USA Enjoy this past, popular post, while I’m on vacation.   See you next week! “Hi, I’m Chelsea. Welcome to the Cacophony Café. I’d like to tell you about our specials tonight.” Our group of six is seated at a round table. This is a good thing, because it’s easy

….for a couple of weeks.  In the meantime, I hope you enjoy a couple of reader favorites from the past few months.  See you soon, Gael. I don’t pretend to be a hearing care professional. But for anyone looking for non-biased, trial-and-error insider advice about hearing aids, I reckon that experience is worth at least a year or two of

“What’s that sound?” I ask the Hearing Husband. “A dog barking down the street”, he replies. “What’s that?” “The fridge coming on.” “What’s that?” “A car alarm going off.” online pharmacy order lasix without prescription with best prices today in the USA “What’s that?” “The cats play-wrestling.” “What’s that?” “The oven timer going off.  For a long time.” “Oh shit!”

The Hearing Husband and I sat on individual floor mats, waiting for the instructor to arrive for our first-ever yoga class.  It was an introductory session offered by our fitness center and we thought why not?    I was about to learn why not. Entering the room, the instructor lowered the lights, and as he walked to his mat in

My guest blogger this week is Wendy Kupfer, author of the renowned children’s book “Let’s Hear It for Almigal”.  When doctors diagnosed Wendy’s daughter, Ali, with a profound hearing loss at the age of 10 months, they also predicted she would never speak.  They underestimated the determination and drive of this mother and daughter who, in achieving their goals, also

Really, how many old hearing aid molds does a person need to keep? The Hearing Husband and I recently sold the house we’d lived in for 16 years, and it was time to clean out the Stuff We Don’t Need.  It was an excruciatingly slow process, the drawer-to-drawer, closet-to-closet search of accumulated things, deciding what to keep and what to

The only sound in the lobby of the Renaissance Austin this morning was a faint echo of 1150 people with hearing loss, most of whom had left the day before.  It’s difficult to appreciate how noisy that many hard of hearing, deafened, oral deaf, hearing aid users and cochlear implant users can be—unless you spend three or more days with them

Never judge a book by its cover – even an inexpensive photocopied one – because what’s inside might be jaw-dropping. This week, sorting through 20 years’ accumulation of hearing loss material, I was about to pitch out a spiral-bound booklet called 80 Years of Looking & Learning.  I opened it and was mesmerized.   Compiled in 2001 by the early lip reading