Daniel Coburn

Every one  ages I have just recently celebrated my 21st birthday (again).  I was taken out to dinner (BBQ) and to a hockey game by my wonderful wife.  But as with everything we have times in our life that we face the truth of our mortality (so to speak).  As with many men my wife says I’m hard of hearing, and well I guess she was right.  If you look a hearing charts you’ll see there’s this wonderful threashold of “20″ if you’re above it you’re good.  If you’re below it, you have hearing loss.  Well I had A LOT below it so I am officially hearing impaired.  Now I’m ok with that, cause I was still able to function.  But when I’m in a room with a lot of people I really have a hard time singling out individual voices.

I was fortunate enough to be able to get some help from the state of UT and some really nice folks.  On monday I obtained my hearing aids.  And they were small, very small my wife didn’t even know that I was wearing them when I asked her, “What do you think?”  I’ve had them for 2 days now and they irritate my ears a little simply because I’m not used to having something in my ear’s all day.  Hopefully I’ll get used to them soon.

But why am I blogging about this?  Maybe someone will read it and realize that it’s not that big of a deal to get hearing aids.  They have improved enough that if you have a smaller hearing loss (just below 20) that you can get one’s that are barely noticible.  (My wife one time asked if I took them off and sure enough I hadn’t)

So go get your hearing checked!