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October is Protect Your Hearing Month

Posted on October 25, 2023September 27, 2023 by Kimberly Anne

If you had asked me in early 2019 if I should be concerned about my hearing, I would have replied, not yet. I’m too young. I was so wrong. With October being Protect your Hearing Month, I’ve decided to encourage my readers to avoid what I have gone through. I’ve included 4 things to do now to protect your hearing.

This is what I suggest you do this month, or at least get the process going. You never know when you have waited too long to save your hearing.

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October is Protect Your Hearing Month – 4 Things to do Now

Posted on October 6, 2021October 6, 2021 by Kimberly Anne

If you had asked me in early 2019 if I should be concerned about my hearing, I would have replied, not yet, I’m too young. I was so wrong. With October being Protect your Hearing Month, I encourage my readers to avoid what I have gone through. Protect your hearing now, before you lose it.

This is what I suggest you do this month, or at least get the process going. You never know when you have waited too long to save your hearing.

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Hearing Aided by a Bone Conduction Implant

Posted on September 16, 2020September 9, 2020 by Kimberly Anne

I love to learn new things. However, I learned about Med-El’s bone conduction implant the hard way. It all started with surgery in November of 2019 for a non-cancerous brain tumor. Since then I have been waiting for some type of hearing aid to compensate for the hearing I completely lost in my left ear. I never expected this would be the answer.

Med-El’s hearing aid implant is quite new. In fact, after I had my brain tumor surgery and I saw the audiologist, I had to wait until March for the surgery because it was not yet available in my area. Of course, March came and Covid-19 stopped surgeries so mine didn’t happen until July, four months later than I had expected.

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