Let’s take care of our hearing, for life.
I’ve approached hearing loss with humor over the years and I try to normalize hearing aids in my professional life. They're nothing to be embarrassed about. In fact, they’re essential tools that keep us engaged with the world.
As a person with hearing loss, you can alert the airline to this at the point of booking, or before you fly. This is usually covered in a special assistance section of the booking, or you can email the airline and let them know.
After years playing water polo without my hearing aids because it’s a must, I’ve figured out my own game. I’ve got my own tricks.
Understanding the multiple mechanisms behind how aminoglycoside antibiotics are able to kill hair cells may provide new potential therapeutic avenues to make these important drugs safer.
It has now been 13 years since my vestibular neurectomy, and it ended up being the best decision I ever made for my Ménière’s. I’m back to a somewhat normal life, although I’ve lost about 80 percent of the hearing in my right ear and have high pitched tinnitus in the same ear 24/7.
When I was obtaining my doctorate in audiology, I started noticing some telltale signs of hearing loss when talking to my grandmother.
We can now treat otoferlin-related hearing loss. In the next 10 years, we will continue to reach more groups with specific causes of hearing loss—momentum that will help accelerate the process for everyone.
My firsthand experience with hearing, speech, and language development challenges, both personally and as a parent, helped shape my writing.
Eventually I told my boss that I would have to resign. As it turns out, that was the best decision I could have made. The enormous stress of my job had been a large contributing factor to the severity of my disease, and letting that responsibility go was decidedly the medicine I needed.