Better Hearing Consumer

Almost anyone who has hearing loss would like to say goodbye to it. Some people, however, are so comfortable with their hearing loss that they would refuse a cure if it were offered. (So they say.) The rest of us, however, would gladly say good riddance and enjoy becoming a hearing person again, or for the first time. Unfortunately, for

If you have hearing loss, you probably already know that there are a lot of habits and routines involved in the hearing loss life. And, if you’re honest, you’ll also admit that while many of these are good things to do, some habits are not, and some routines could use improvement. But first, what’s the difference between a habit and

At the recent conference of the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association (CHHA) in Montreal, I was one of several people asked to give a sort of TED Talk, which we creatively called CHHA Talks. As I sat down to prepare my speech, the session description made me almost spew my coffee over my laptop.  “Professional speakers devoted to spreading revolutionary

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Isn’t it amazing what people who don’t have hearing loss can do? My friend Myrtle says that hearing people always do what they do best – they hear.   They can understand the words in songs with so much background instrumentals that we, people with hearing loss, can’t even tell that someone is singing. When a bird calls out from

Boy, am I tired. In fact, I’m tired-er than tired. I just returned from a fabulous three-week trip to New Zealand with the Hearing Husband. The only downside was the trip home which involved three flights over 24 hours. And that kind of time and energy commitment is guaranteed to not only drain you of physical energy, but of the

A person who has hearing loss needs help. This is a truism – it’s self-evident and can’t be argued. It’s almost impossible to self-diagnose and accurately self-prescribe effective solutions.  A person with hearing loss may choose to not reach out for help, to decide against finding out the cause of the hearing loss, to elect not to be tested, and

By Kathi Mestayer   Visits with my family are always a challenge, to varying degrees. All of the adults who share DNA are hard-of-hearing. Dad, who is 93 now, has a cochlear implant in one ear and the other ear is deaf. His wife, Mary, has hyperacusis, or extreme sound-sensitivity, so conversation can get tricky.  On my last visit, they

We blame IT on our hearing loss. On stress. On overexposure to loud noise. On medications. On illness or disease. On the treatments for illness. On pregnancy. On getting older. On we-haven’t-got-a-clue! The IT is Tinnitus, or “T” as many sufferers call it, not wanting to legitimize it by giving it a name. There are many causes of “T”, but

For first-time users, wearing hearing aids can be a love-hate affair. The ‘love’ might be better termed as an “OK, fine, I’ll-wear-them” type of emotion. For people who have worn hearing aids for a long time, there’s more love than hate. And a better term for ‘hate’ might be ‘mild irritation with’ or ‘wouldn’t it be nice not to wear