If you’re exposed to a lot of loud sound and don’t use hearing protection, you might experience hearing loss later in life. Hearing loss may be in your future, for example, if you work on a loud factory floor without hearing protection. These are pretty common and well known causes of hearing loss. But within […]
For you and the people you love, coping with hearing loss can be difficult to adjust to. Sometimes, it can even be unsafe. What’s going to happen if you can’t hear a fire alarm or somebody calling your name? If you have untreated hearing loss, you won’t be able to hear those car noises that […]
Even when it’s somewhat mild, hearing loss can have a major impact on your life. The way you connect with friends, coworkers, and family members can change dramatically. It can become difficult to complete daily tasks such as going shopping. But that doesn’t mean it has to be all doom and gloom. Quite the opposite, […]
If you start talking about dementia at your next family get-together, you will most likely put a dark cloud over the whole event. Dementia isn’t a topic most individuals are intentionally looking to discuss, mainly because it’s rather scary. A degenerative cognitive disease in which you gradually (or, more frighteningly, quickly) lose your mental faculties, […]
You go into the kitchen to find a snack. How about a salty treat… how about crackers? Chips sound good! There’s a leftover slice of cheesecake that would be yummy. Perhaps you should just go with a banana on second thought. After all, a banana is a much better health option. When it comes to […]
No two cases of hearing loss are identical You should not expect your experience with impaired hearing to be precisely the same as someone else who might have the same hearing loss condition. No two cases of hearing loss are precisely alike. While it may be beneficial to learn about someone else’s journey with hearing […]
Gatherings. More, and more family gatherings. It probably feels like you’re meeting or reuniting with every relative you have, every weekend, during the holidays. The holiday season can be fun (and also challenging) for this reason. Normally, it’s easy to look forward to this yearly catching up. You get to check in on everyone and […]
You arrive at your company’s yearly holiday party and you’re instantly bombarded by noise. The din of shouted conversations, the clanging of glasses, and the throbbing beat of music are all mixing in your ears. You’re not enjoying it at all. In such a noisy environment, you can’t hear a thing. The punch lines of […]
There are other symptoms of a cold that are less prevalent than the well known runny nose. Once in a while, a cold can go into one or more ears, but you rarely hear about those. While you may generally think of colds as harmless, here’s why this ear-related cold symptom should never be dismissed. […]
After months (possibly even years) of waiting, you’ve finally decided to contact us to find out if you should get hearing aids. You have been resisting this like so many other people. But the inconvenience, the lost moments, the missing interactions, they all finally became too hard to ignore. So it’s a bit frustrating when […]
