So, so many family get-togethers. It likely seems like you’re meeting or reuniting with every relative you have, every weekend, during the holiday season. The holiday season can be enjoyable (and also difficult) for this reason. Usually, this sort of yearly catching up is something that’s easy to anticipate. You get to reunite with everyone
You’re bombarded by noise as soon as you arrive at the annual company holiday party. You can feel the pumping music, the thrum of shouted conversations, and the clattering of glasses. You’re not enjoying it at all. In such a loud environment, you can’t hear anything. You can’t keep up with conversations, you can’t hear
There are other symptoms of a cold that are less prevalent than the well known runny nose. Once in a while, a cold can move into one or both ears, though you rarely hear about those. While you may generally consider colds as harmless, here’s why this ear-related cold symptom should never be ignored. What
After months (maybe even years) of waiting, you’ve finally resolved to contact us to see if you need hearing aids. You have been resisting this like so many others. But the difficulty of living life without being able to hear has finally become too hard to ignore. So when you do finally come in and
It’s difficult to comprehend but most people have gone over ten years without getting a hearing test. Harper is one of them. She goes to see her doctor for her annual medical test and has her teeth cleaned every six months. She even gets her timing belt changed every 6000 miles! But she always forgets
If you have a partner with neglected hearing loss, you appreciate that getting their attention can be… a problem. Their name is the first thing you try saying. You say “Greg”, but you get no answer because you used an inside volume level. You try raising your volume and saying Greg’s name again but he
There are many well known causes of hearing loss, but few people realize the dangers that some chemicals pose to their hearing. While there are numerous groups of people at risk, individuals in industries such as textiles, petroleum, automotive, plastics, and metal fabrication have greater exposure. You can safeguard your quality of life by knowing
Music is an important part of Aiden’s life. He listens to Spotify while at work, switches to Pandora when jogging, and he has a playlist for everything: cardio, cooking, video games, you name it. His entire life has a soundtrack and it’s playing on his headphones. But the exact thing that Aiden loves, the loud,
You’re lying in bed attempting to sleep when you begin to notice the sound: Your ear has a whooshing or pulsating in it. The sound is rhythmic and tuned in to your heartbeat. And regardless of how hard you try, you can’t tune it out. You have a lot to do tomorrow and you really
Because you’re so hip, you were in the front row for the whole rock concert last night. It isn’t exactly hearing-healthy, but it’s enjoyable, and the next morning, you wake up with both ears ringing. (That part’s less fun.) But what if you awaken and can only hear out of one ear? Well, if that’s
