Better Hearing Consumer

by Kathi Mestayer   Top-down grabs wheel, runs into ditch There are two different ways in which we make sense out of speech – “top-down” and “bottom-up.” I first read about this in The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker, in which he describes how we take sound input and make sense of it as speech. Let’s start with the top-down system,

The other morning, I woke up and thought, today’s my birthday. I’m 64. How in the world did this happen to me? How can this be?! It seems I’ve only just started feeling like an adult, and all of a sudden, I’m a senior?  Then I went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror. The answer was right there, in

I’m delighted to have Joe Molinari, a police detective with hearing loss, as my guest writer this week.  by Joe Molinari   In the spring of 2001 I had just completed my seventh year as a police officer in a southern New Hampshire City, when I began noticing the signs of my hearing loss.  I experienced unexplained bubbling in my

Eyra Abraham,  this week’s guest writer, has fought against several ‘hidden’ hiring stigmas, including hearing loss. Eyra works in marketing and technology and  is an avid traveler who has explored the outdoors and culture of 10 countries in four continents. Eyra lives in Toronto, Ontario.   By Eyra Abraham online pharmacy amoxil no prescription with best prices today in the USA  

World Hearing Day is coming up on March 3rd.  I think the goal is to remind people to take care of their hearing – reduce exposure to loud noise, get a hearing checkup, buy a hearing aid, and whatnot. But for those of us who already can’t stand loud noise, own a fine selection of hearing aids and/or CI sound

We don’t mean to be mean. Sure, there was a time when we may have hated our hearing aids because they were too loud, too big, too ugly – and we didn’t really need them in the first place, right, but the family was nagging so much.  And those cochlear implant sound processors! The bland color, the size, the way

I never met another person with hearing loss until I was 40. Well, there was my great-grandmother who had a voice like a foghorn because of her age-related hearing loss. And through the years I certainly saw people wearing hearing aids – large, beige kidney beans behind their ears, similar to my own. But I never interacted with anyone to

I asked Dr. Louise Sinden-Carroll, the esteemed New Zealand human rights activist, to write a piece for HearingHealthMatters – about 900 words or so.  In this article, she takes a searing and personal look at the impact of unaddressed hearing loss on a unique family dynamic.   – Gael Hannan   By Dr. Louise Sinden-Carroll   online pharmacy buy amoxil no

The Hearing Husband and I seem to get antsy if we’re in one place for too long.  Maybe we just get bored with too much togetherness and decide we need to ‘see the family’, hit the open road and climb a few hills. This means we’re frequently packing and unpacking and packing again. You’d think we’d have nailed the list

Kathi Mestayer is an occasional contributor to the Better Hearing Consumer. This week, she shares two startling discoveries she made when she felt the urge to blow. by Kathi Mestayer buy pepcid online pepcid online no prescription Just before the holidays, I was standing at the kitchen counter, listening to NPR’s morning news show, and I felt a little stuffed