September 20, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Aiden loves music. While he’s out running, he’s listening to Pandora, while working it’s Spotify, and he has a playlist for everything he does: gaming, gym time, cooking, and everything else. His headphones are almost always on, his life a completely soundtracked affair. But the exact thing that Aiden loves, the loud, immersive music, may […]
September 7, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Let’s imagine you go to a rock show. You’re cool, so you spend all night in the front row. It’s enjoyable, although it’s not good for your ears which will be ringing when you get up in the morning. (That part’s less enjoyable.) But what happens if you can only hear out of one ear […]
August 8, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Some activities are simply staples of summertime: Outdoor concerts, fireworks shows, state fairs, air shows, and NASCAR races (look, if you like watching cars go around in circles, nobody’s going to judge you). The crowds, and the noise levels, are growing as more of these events are getting back to normal. But sometimes this can […]
July 11, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
You want to be courteous when you are talking with friends. At work, you want to look involved, even enthralled with what your manager/colleagues/customers are saying. You regularly find yourself asking family to repeat themselves because it was less difficult to tune out parts of the conversation that you weren’t able to hear very well. […]
June 20, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
As we get older we begin to have trouble hearing clearly and we typically just accept it as a normal part of aging. Perhaps we start turning up the volume on the TV or keep asking our grandkids to speak up when they’re talking to us, or maybe we start forgetting things? Loss of memory […]
June 1, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Keep your eyes on the road. While this might be sound advice, how about your other senses? Your ears, for example, are doing a lot of work while you’re driving, helping you keep track of other vehicles, alerting you to info on your dashboard, and keeping you engaged with the other individuals in your vehicle. […]
May 10, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Your last family get-together was frustrating. Not because of any intra-family drama (though there’s always a little bit of that). No, the cause of the stress was simple: it was noisy, and you couldn’t hear anything. So you didn’t get the opportunity to ask about Dave’s new cat or Sally’s new job. It was frustrating. […]
April 19, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Your sense of hearing is essential in your life and when it’s gone, there will be no natural way of getting it back. But somehow, hearing loss tends to go untreated and uncontrolled in the general population. As a matter of fact, permanent hearing loss affects one out of eight individuals (nearly 30 million people) […]
April 5, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
It’s frequently said that hearing loss is a slow-moving process. It can be rather subtle for this exact reason. Your hearing doesn’t deteriorate in big leaps but rather in tiny steps. And that can make the gradual decline in your hearing hard to track, especially if you aren’t watching for it. That’s why recognizing the […]
March 29, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Pain is your body’s way of giving you information. It’s not a terribly enjoyable approach but it can be effective. When your ears begin to feel the pain of a very loud megaphone next to you, you know damage is happening and you can take steps to move further away or at least cover your […]
