Happy New Year from our family to yours! And before the old year dies, we offer you a recap. Want to know what we’ve been up to in 2017? In short, we’ve done A LOT! 2017 was a year of accomplishments, hard work, significant growth, warm feelings and fabulous festivities. We have several highlights to share with you. Yes, the …
Sleigh Bells Ring, Can You Hear Them?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! At Decibels Audiology and Hearing Aid Center, we live for the Christmas season (and all the Christmas sounds). From the day after Thanksgiving to January 1, it is all things festive, fun, excitement, and joy. What does your holiday season look like this year? How do you celebrate and enjoy these weeks …
A Labor Day Poem for Southwest Florida
If you want to have the best Labor Day OF YOUR LIFE, do just one thing today. Just one thing — that’s all we ask! Please read this Labor Day poem: Oh, Labor Day, we’ve been waiting for you! We say goodbye to Floridian summer and bid the sweltering heat adieu! We celebrate in a patriotic way with red, white, …
The Relationship of Your Dreams
“So, who do you like?” I often ask single friends in a dramatic, sing-songy voice. “Well, there’s this guy…” and my girlfriend begins to talk in detail about the new relationship in her life. Aren’t relationships are so exciting? Falling in love is one of the great joys life offers us! Pursuing the Ideal Relationship The prospect of a romantic …
The Health Insurance Beast
Need help navigating the intricacies of health insurance? You’re not alone! Figuring out your health insurance may seem as complicated, endless, and futile as navigating a super Walmart or as terrifying as Frodo’s journey through Middle Earth. Health insurance seems to serve up never-ending stresses. But it’s not impossible to figure out, especially when it comes to hearing aids and …
Sign Language at Disney World
Did you know Disney World has won an award for advances in media for deaf and hard of hearing? Several years ago, Walt Disney World received an award from the National Association of the Deaf for their use of sign language interpretation at their parks, along with other programs. In fact, Mickey and Minnie’s use of sign language at Disney …
Haters Gonna Hate…Their Hearing Aids
Want to channel your inner Taylor Swift? I mean, who doesn’t? Taylor doesn’t wear fabulous hearing devices (yet). However, she is young, beautiful, and seemingly carefree! T-Swift lives in an over-the-top apartment in New York, wears drool-worthy handbags, and draws on her personal life to write simple, sweet songs about previous relationships. And, in one of her most popular songs …
Hearing Aids: Your Invisible Friend
What would you do if you could be invisible? If you knew no one could witness what you were doing? If all your actions could be done under a Harry Potter-esque cloak of invisibility? What would you wear? What would you eat? Where would you go? How would you dance? If You Were Invisible Self-awareness often provides a suitable boundary …
Prevent Hearing Injuries on July 4th
Happy 4th of July! If you’re like most people in Southwest Florida, you’ll be spending today and tomorrow enjoying festivities around town — the Naples July 4th parade, maybe the Moes 5k Run (or maybe not because running is horrible), a barbecue with friends and family, and fireworks! To have a successful holiday, might we suggest doing your best to …
The Truth About Cheap Hearing Aids
Think you can visit a big box store and purchase a TV, 20 pounds of chicken, and a set of cheap hearing aids and leave happy and free from frustration? Well, you might be the first person EVER to have that experience! How do we know that? We get multiple calls every day from patients frustrated with the cheap hearing …