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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

  New Year resolutions are never really meant to last the whole year, let alone the rest of our life, are they?  OK, maybe they are, but every year don’t we make the same list of “I am determined to do this” things – eat less, drink less, spend less, smile more, and just be an overall better person? People

For this final post of 2017, I’m reprinting the most-read article I’ve ever posted to the Better Hearing Consumer. Since its original posting in May of 2012, I’ve added cochlear implant batteries to my arsenal of hearing things.  I hope that you’re all having a peaceful and happy holiday season.  Best wishes, Gael Hannan   What I Didn’t Know About Hearing

In this final month of the year, we at Hearing Health Matters are posting what we consider to be our best and/or most popular articles of this and other years. I hope you’ll enjoy reading (or re-reading) this article of stupid hearing loss questions to ask yourself – you won’t believe your answers!     On social media, it’s sometimes tough

As we close off the year, the Better Hearing Consumer and other Hearing Health Matters editors are posting our favorite and most popular posts. The following article is from November 2013, and remains one of the most personal pieces I’ve written. I hope you enjoy it.   If I Were a Hearing Person   When trying to remember a time

It’s not like my feet were pretty to begin with. It didn’t help when I dropped a heavy flooring sample – the thin edge – on my left foot. The toe next to the big one is now the biggest one. We’ve all stubbed or bruised or broken a toe at some point. And if you’re one of the lucky