I love how clients describe their hearing loss. “My hearing sounds FOGGY.” “It’s like people are talking through a wet towel.” “Life sounds blurry and out of focus.” “It’s a lot like trying to look through a dirty window.” These descriptions of hearing loss made me...
01/11/21 WOW…What an intense, scary, and crazy week of events. Many of us watched as a group of people literally broke down the doors of the U.S. Capitol and desecrated the sacredness of our government. These and other violent acts have become part of America. Some...
Who you are, matters, and how you participate in life makes a difference. I believe that we are all connected to one another in some divine and wonderfully, mysterious way. But when hearing loss is present, that human connection can be easily broken. Simple things in...
The Confusing Thing About Hearing Loss Over the past few weeks, we have received numerous calls from people who did not purchase their hearing care or their hearing aids from Avalon. Some of these people ‘fired’ their hearing care provider but most of them simply did...
We hear with our ears. When we begin to lose some of our hearing, properly-fitted hearing instruments can help us hear many of the sounds that go missing. That’s the good news. Here’s the not-so-good news. Hearing aids alone don’t solve a hearing problem because we...
Every person with hearing loss is unique. You are unique! No two people are alike and no two hearing losses are alike. I remember on several occasions having two patients with the same identical hearing losses when looking at their audiograms. I fit both of these...