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No one knows I’m not hearing a lot of the conversation.  That’s right.  No one knows I didn’t get what was said unless I asked or said: what, repeat that, excuse me or what was that again.  After awhile I actually just got tired of asking people.  Most of the time they didn’t even know I wasn’t getting it, or at least I think they didn’t know.

Hearing aids have changed most of those situations for me.  I know I don’t get everything,  but I know I get almost all of it.  What a difference this has made — not only for my family but most importantly, for me.

Baby Boomers are changing the attitudes of everyone about hearing aids.  The past view of Hearing Aids is less than desirable…from making someone look old to not even working for people who have a sensory neural hearing loss.

It is so great to see how attitudes are changing about wearing hearing aids.  To me it is downright refreshing.  For the past 35 years I have done everything within my power to try to convince people they should at least try wearing a hearing aid.  It has been extremely difficult, if not impossible, to motivate most people to at least try to see if they would benefit from amplification…even when the patient agrees they have a hearing loss and know their hearing loss is causing much pain in their lives.

We all agree that the most important aspect of communication is, of course, the words we use.  Then comes the inflections and tones of sounds that the words are presented or spoke in.  We all have heard it said that it’s not what you said, it was how you said it.

Communication all comes down to so many levels of receiving information that we try to decipher what was said or how it was said.  Bottom line, we will always remember how we felt after having a conversation much more than what was said during a conversation.  The reason for this is that it is the tonal part of words that communicate the most powerful part of communications and that’s our feelings.

Almost all patients who I’ve fit with hearing aids have some degree of tinnitus or ringing in their ears.  What’s the cause?  So far there are a lot of ideas; however, no one as yet has come up with a cure.

The question is:  Can a Hearing Aid help?  The answer is:  Most of the time.  A hearing aid will bring all the sounds you are missing up to a normal level of hearing.  In doing so almost 85% of my patients notice that their tinnitus is reduced greatly when they wear their hearing aids.  About 15% say they can’t hear the ringing at all and about 10% say it doesn’t seem to have any affect.

I remember when the only people that would buy a hearing aid were people who were dragged into my office by someone who usually said he or she “is going to buy hearing aids or I am getting a divorce”.  There was no doubt that hearing aids were going to be purchased that day.  There had to be an extreme amount of motivation to overcome the resistance of purchasing hearing aids.

Hearing aids have always been talked about as not working by most Doctors as they told everyone if they had nerve loss, hearing aids wouldn’t help.  Well, come to find out, that’s the kind of hearing loss the hearing aids helped!  Interesting how the story changes when Doctors are dispensing hearing aids; isn’t it?

What an amazing time we are living in! Who knew we would be living in an age where we can literally invest in some of the best companies in the world and not break the bank doing it. Who would have thought?

Without a doubt, the most important investment we can make is in ourselves. It may be education or improving our skills up to higher levels so we will be worth more money as employees. According to Better Hearing Institute if you have a hearing loss, you better be investing in getting your hearing corrected. Their study about hearing loss is very revealing to all of us. It tells us how important our hearing is in relationship to how much money we make in the workplace and how hearing better can improve our careers. It was noted that someone with an uncorrected hearing loss on average makes about $1000 a month less when compared with someone who has normal hearing.

If you can’t hear everything going on around you, please see your doctor and ask for a hearing test. If it’s recommended that you get a hearing aid, ask for your hearing aid test results.

Then go to, HearPod.com and you will find out how easy it is to order a prescriptive fit 100% digital hearing aid.

When you get to the site, all you have to do is follow the step by step process to first select one of the 4 models offered.

Then you can choose between two of the best digital chips used today.

After choosing your HearPod, most are shipped directly to you within 48 hours. Imagine! Within days you’ll be hearing with your prescriptive fit HearPods using the highest rated digital technology available today.

I believe the quality of our lives to be dependent upon the quality of our relationships. Sometimes we don’t stop to think about what makes our lives happy and meaningful and I believe, as most experts do, it all comes down to the quality of our relationships.

Think for a moment who you are really close to. Almost everyone has a special relationship with their mate, maybe even a special friend, and I would venture to say that it’s the people at work you are the closest to that make your work environment enjoyable and even profitable.

If you’ve seen your doctor, have your hearing test results and can follow our on-line cleaning and servicing instructions, a HearPod digital hearing aid may be a great solution for your hearing needs.

Why?  Because HearPod has designed a one-of-a kind fitting system that fits as much as 95 % of patients.  HearPod gives you the option of sending their product back with a silicone mold or an old hearing aid that fits well and they will make a custom shell for you for only $79.00.

Want the highest level of technology available today in a hearing aid starting as low as $395.00?  Would you like it programmed to your hearing prescription?  How about great customer service that provides videos, and instructional manuals showing you how to easily service your own HearPod hearing aids?

I used to wear hearing aids only when I went out. This was to avoid being left out of conversations and to save myself from making embarrassing comments after misunderstanding the direction of conversations.

I know firsthand how frustrating it is to constantly misunderstand what people are saying. I know how awful it is having to ask anyone with a soft voice to please repeat every sentence…just one more time. This gets especially annoying when it’s someone related to you.

I now wear digital behind-the-ear directional hearing aids and love them.

What changed me and how I viewed wearing hearing aids forever, is what my son related to me about what his daughter said to him after she spent a weekend at my house. My 8 year old granddaughter asked her father why I didn’t like her.