May 31 is National Save Your Hearing Day. Did you know? Most likely you will not even be aware of it and definitely, you won’t be throwing a party to celebrate it. Maybe you can schedule the party for October when it is Protect Your Hearing Month. These are little know holidays that can make a tremendous difference in your life. I know from experience. And so I post an article like this every year, in October. And now I’m also adding May.
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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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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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I last wrote about this journey in April. At that time I was anticipating receiving a call to schedule my BAHA surgery. I expected that call to come any day. It didn’t.
BAHA is a bone attached hearing aid. It’s a type of cochlear implant. It is my possibility of once again being able to distinguish where sounds come from. Until my BAHA is attached and I receive the exterior part, I cannot figure out where people are that are talking to me. Whether they are behind me or to the left of me, I have no idea. It could be a difficult thing if a stranger were sneaking up on me. My husband, who should know this is a problem, will walk up behind me and start talking. That is when panic takes over. I look to my right and to my left and then behind me until I find him.
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