In most cases hearing loss is a subtle and slow moving condition. It usually starts with the higher frequencies rendering some speech unclear. People will say, “I hear, I just don’t understand”, or “My spouse mumbles all the time and needs to enunciate better”. Never does it occur to them that the problem might be their ears. Denial is a …
Hearing Loss and Dementia, is there a link?
First of all, not all hearing loss is because of the aging process. Of the approximately 40 million Americans with hearing loss, half are under the age of 65. We are seeing many more patients in our office in their 40’s and 50’s. This should grab our attention considering the results of a few recent studies centered around hearing loss …
You hear with your brain not your ears
Now I know some of you read the title and thought “uh oh”! No worries, hearing or understanding, does not have anything to do with how smart you are. What we call ears, (those things on the side of your head) are really just collection dishes for sound. The outer ear funnels sound down the ear canal to the ear …
My wife asked me to get a male stripper
Ok, don’t get too excited. This is not an “X” rated story. A good friend of mine (who has a hearing loss) and his wife went to the local grocery store. They had a large list and so they split the list and were about to go their separate ways when his wife looked back over her shoulder and said, …