The Hear Daily

Laura McCullough-DeLorme is 38, from Green Bay, Wisconsin, and is an aspiring playwright.  Her blog is Little Orange Kitchen.
My hearing loss was gradual at first and I chalked it off to people mumbling. Eventually my husband noticed that I was constantly asking him to repeat himself and that I didn’t pick up noises like loud birds […]

Hearing impairment is often referred to as a hidden handicap.  The larger community around us - the clerks at the grocery store, the new neighbor, a friend of a friend - will have no idea based on our physical attibutes that we are hard-of-hearing.  Even with our hearing corrected, sometimes the situation is such that we […]

Water and hearing aids don’t mix.  If you have ever dropped your Ipod in the bathtub or your cell phone in a cup of coffee,  you know that most modern electronic equipment has almost no tolerance to moisture.  Hearing aids, nestled daily in a dewy environment, are particularly vulnerable and particulary expensive to replace.
But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do […]