June 2, 2023 | Cleartone Hearing Aid Services & Medina Hearing Aid Services
Denial is a common first reaction. My loved one must be just making it seem as if their hearing loss is worse than it actually is. She’s too young to require a hearing aid. It’s possible, the both of you have started to joke around with each other about it. She is always asking you […]
May 24, 2023 | Cleartone Hearing Aid Services & Medina Hearing Aid Services
Finally, it’s summer!! This summer season offers a lot of fun. But keep the health of your hearing in mind before you head out for a day on the beach, a rocking concert, or maybe a great backyard get-together. Loud noises can damage your hearing, even if you don’t think they’re that loud. So it’s […]
May 17, 2023 | Cleartone Hearing Aid Services & Medina Hearing Aid Services
Remember when you used to be able to get those gallon buckets of ice cream at the supermarket? An entire gallon of ice cream, yum! But as you grow up, you begin to get a little more specific. You begin opting for the more specialized ice cream: the Haagen-Daaz, the Tillamook, the Ben & Jerry’s. […]
May 10, 2023 | Cleartone Hearing Aid Services & Medina Hearing Aid Services
When you take a shower, always remember to wash your ears. Whenever you say that, you unavoidably use your “parent voice”. Maybe you even recall getting that advice as a kid. That’s the type of memory that can remind you of simpler times as you wrap yourself in the nostalgia of youth. But that advice […]
May 3, 2023 | Cleartone Hearing Aid Services & Medina Hearing Aid Services
Do you know what a cyborg is? If your mind gets swept up in science fiction movies, you probably think of cyborgs as sort of half-human, half machine characters (the human condition is frequently cleverly portrayed with these characters). You can get some really fantastic cyborgs in Hollywood. But in reality, somebody wearing something as […]
April 26, 2023 | Cleartone Hearing Aid Services & Medina Hearing Aid Services
You go above and beyond to ensure your hearing aids are well cared for. Cleaning them every day, you make sure they’re safe and comfortable on their charger when you go to bed. Suddenly and discouragingly, your hearing aids aren’t working the way they used to. Fortunately, there are some steps you can take to […]
April 20, 2023 | Cleartone Hearing Aid Services & Medina Hearing Aid Services
While it might be true that older hearing aids are better than nothing, it’s likely that what little benefit you get from them comes at a cost. Hearing aid technology has progressed a lot in the past few years! It’s gone from analog to digital, for one thing, and there are features today that weren’t […]
April 12, 2023 | Cleartone Hearing Aid Services & Medina Hearing Aid Services
Hearing loss is a common condition that can be mitigated easily with the use of hearing aids and assistive listening devices. Unfortunately, hearing loss often goes undiagnosed and unaddressed. For people with hearing loss, this can bring about feelings of social-isolation and depression. And these feelings of depression and isolation can be enhanced by the […]
April 4, 2023 | Cleartone Hearing Aid Services & Medina Hearing Aid Services
In the past they were called “books-on-tape”. Back then, obviously, we didn’t even have CDs let alone streaming services. Today, they have a much better name; audiobooks. With an audiobook, you can listen to the book being read by a narrator. It’s sort of like having somebody read a book out loud to you (okay, […]
March 29, 2023 | Cleartone Hearing Aid Services & Medina Hearing Aid Services
Remember the old tale of Johnny Appleseed? When you were younger you probably heard the story of how Johnny Appleseed journeyed around bringing fresh apples to communities (you should eat apples because they’re good for you and that’s the moral of the story). That’s only partly accurate. Around the end of the 19th century, Johnny […]