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Stuart Spencer, BC-HIS
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Now ‘Ear This from the Expert
Laboring to hear? Relax!
With “Labor” being a major
focus in September, there is
one thing we hearing care
professionals don’t wish any
of our patients to labor over:
hearing well.
Most patients say they can
hear someone speaking, but
they don’t understand all of the
words. Or, they have moments
in conversation where they’re
thrown off because they didn’t
understand just one important
word. If this is you, we can help!
them. These word lists are
phonetically balanced to identify
which sounds the patient
struggles to understand most.
This test gives the specialist
a barometer of how often the
patient misunderstands words,
and helps them formulate their
best recommendation.
You
know
that
“Special
Someone” who always says
“You can’t hear!”? We invite
you to bring him or her with you.
We will have them read the list
to you. Using your Special
Someone’s familiar voice helps
Nearly everyone remembers you see how well you do—or
the hearing test from grade don’t—understand words.
school, where you “push the
button when you hear the tone”. Come on! This is your chance
Although the “tone test” is the to prove how well you hear—
most
recognizable
means or how softly they talk, or
of checking for hearing loss, how bad they mumble! Don’t
there are many other ways we work so hard. Give yourself a
evaluate someone’s hearing break! Hearing well and having
acuity. One very effective test good conversation needn’t be
is the “speech discrimination” laborious.
(word understanding) test. For Call us today to schedule
this evaluation, the professional your speech discrimination
reads a list of words and the test.
patient is instructed to repeat
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2016
SEP
SEPTEMBER EVENTS
Answers on pg. 3
Fill in consonants for clues about these
September events, to say goodbye to summer.
1. __ A __ __ /__ O / __ __ __ O O __
Return to the Classroom
2. __ E A __ __ E __ __
Instructors for Younger Students
3. __ E __ E __ __
Every Student’s Favorite Subject
4. __ A __ __ __ A __ __
Schoolbook Carrier Bag
5. __ __ A __ __ __ O A __ __
Need Chalk and Eraser for This
6. __ O __ / __ U I __
Unexpected Test
7. E __ __ / O __ / __ U __ __ E __
Another Way to Say “Closing Out the
Season”
8. __ A __ O __ / __ A __
September Celebration of Workforce
9. U __ I O __ __
Organized Teamsters
10.__ __ __ E E / __ A __ / __ E E __ E __ __
72 Hours to Enjoy the Last Bit of the Season
I asked our gentleman patient,
“What made you finally decide
to come in and have us check
your hearing?”
He tried to wiggle out of the
question, but his wife stopped
him cold in his tracks when
she blurted out, “Oh, Henry!
For heaven’s sake! Why don’t
you just tell them you were
embarrassed by our 5-year-old
grandson?”
I asked her to elaborate.
“Lyle—our little grandson in
kindergarten—was so proud
that he had learned the Pledge
of Allegiance. But Lyle cried
after reciting it because Henry
just laughed and kept teasing
him. He thought Lyle said, ‘I led
the pigeons to the flag…’
“Poor little Lyle was heartbroken
that Grandpa didn’t believe him
and laughed at him, instead of
telling him how proud he was.
That’s why we’re here today.”
Henry admitted he really had
hurt his grandson’s feelings and
now he understood how his bad
hearing was affecting those he
loves.
Kudos, Henry! Anybody else
ready to admit and commit? We
can help you, too.
CALL US TODAY!
Music Lovers, Be Aware
As more and more of the rock-n-roll
musicians of the ‘60’s, ‘70’s and ‘80’s
become part of “the mature population”,
many of them are beginning to
acknowledge that all of those years
of loud music—both on stage and in
the studio—have taken a toll on their
hearing.
now in their 30’s and 40’s. For example,
Will.I.Am (lead singer of the popular
hip-hop group ‘Black Eyed Peas’),
now only 41 years old, recently told an
interviewer that he began to notice both
a hearing loss and “that ringing-in-theears sensation” (tinnitus) when he was
in his thirties.
That list includes Pete Townshend (The
Who), Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac)
and scores of other aging rockers, but
it also includes musicians who are only
But it’s not just the musicians that report
damage to their hearing; it’s the rest
of us who listen to it whose hearing is
damaged, as well. In fact, one in every
Cont. pg 3
Honoring Unsung Heroes
September 11, 2001.
Fifteen years ago, on a
crisp, clear, pre-autumn
day,
the
morning’s
beautiful
blue
skies
billowed to ashen gray
and the world instantly
stopped. Literally shook
on its axis and ground
to a halt. Yes, time heals
Cont. pg 2
all wounds but we must many
other
heroes
never forget.
whose names were never
Names like Ted Beamer, mentioned again except
Mark Bingham, Thomas by the families who loved
Burnett, Jeremy Glick and them. They are no less
Rev. Mychal Judge will heroic, or patriotic, or
always be remembered. deserving of memory.
While their valiant stories Michael Benfante, then
emerged from the midst 36, and John Cerqueira,
of horror, there were 22, were in the North
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Music Lovers, Be Aware
Honoring Unsung Heroes
Cont. From pg. 1
with his arms wrapped around the This minuscule list of unsung heroes is
body of a paraplegic.
meagerly representative of the bravery
Coffee shop owner, Johnny Costalas, and selfless nobility that heroes have
helped his diners safely escape, then in common. We owe it to every hero,
set up a triage inside his restaurant, every American, who has died for this
overseeing its operation for more country, to value this distinctive nation
than six weeks. Welles Crowther, an we have and to preserve it for as long
equities trader, saved at least 18 lives as we can. They died as Americans,
that morning when he exited and re- for America. In honor of their ultimate
tower of the World Trade Center when entered the WTC three times. His body sacrifice, let us remember.
it was hit. They herded everyone to was recovered six months later.
the stairway and began the 81-floor Moira Smith, the only female of NYPD’s
descent. On the 68th floor, they found twenty-three victims, saved countless
a woman in a wheelchair and carried lives before being found among the
her for more than an hour to the ground dead. She was laid to rest on what
floor. All lives were saved.
would have been her 39th birthday.
Nameless, faceless amateur radio
operators around the world provided
vital communications to organize
rescue. Two unnamed women carried
a badly-burned stranger down long
flights of stairs and out of danger. An
unnamed man, found days after the
World Trade Center collapsed, died
F.B.I. Special Agent, Leonard Hatton,
saw smoke and fire coming from the
North Tower. Radioing his supervisor
that he was going to help, he joined
right in with the NYFD, running in and
out of the smoldering building. In the
end, he exchanged his own life for the
lives of strangers.
Summer time is great for
the outdoors. We like to
hike in the hills behind our
house in San Clemente.
The city has made some
really nice trails for hikers,
bikers and every once in a
while you can even see an
occasional horse.
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This week Buddy and I took
a walk and we weren’t so
lucky. We didn’t run into
any snakes, but we did find
a very mischievous skunk.
I’ve seen coyotes, snakes,
tarantulas and bob-cats up
there but never a skunk.
It didn’t take long for the
skunk and Buddy to see
each other. Buddy is
always on the leash due to
past experiences with the
coyotes. He was barking
away and evidently this
skunk had had enough.
He turned and blasted
his spray right in our
direction.
I can tell you – that is one
powerful odor! We were a
pretty good distance and
— POTPOURRI —
Kwik Facts About US Labor
1. First U.S. Labor Day was
celebrated September 5,
1882, in NYC with a parade
of union members.
2. At least 20,000 people were
at the parade. Workers
had to forfeit a day’s pay to
attend.
4. The Adamson Act of
September 3, 1916
established an 8-hour work
day.
still caught the full effect.
We didn’t get the main spray
but it was enough to retreat
and go a different direction.
Buddy wasn’t at fault by any
means but we both did take
a tomato juice cleansing
when we got home to get
rid of the awful smell. Next
time I’m running!
Cont. From pg. 1
It’s illegal to sit and eat a
sandwich in St. Mark’s Square,
Venice, Italy. Fines start at
$50-$60, but can go as high as
$600!
3. Labor Day became a
federal legal holiday in
1894, signed into law by
Grover Cleveland.
Buddy’s Bio – Buddy Gets Blasted (and not from Mariela)
One time I
was
walking
the trail with
Buddy and we
saw a rattle
snake (about
5 feet long)
slither out of
the bush from
the side of the
trail and then
he
stopped,
stretching out
straight across our path.
Of course Buddy started
barking about a minute
later. Thank goodness the
snake continued on into the
grass on the other side.
— LOONEY LAW —
5. The National Hot Dog and
Sausage Council says that
between Memorial Day and
Labor Day, Americans will
eat 7 billion hot dogs.
Happy Grandparents’ Day!
Sunday, September 11, 2016
four hearing losses diagnosed each musicians have significant hearing
year is for someone under the age of loss. Classical musicians play six-to21. That’s an alarming statistic.
eight concerts a week, and practice for
And hearing loss can happen as a result five hours, putting them at the same
of just being exposed to consistent, serious risk of suffering hearing loss
loud noise in a confined environment, as rock musicians.
such as an automobile. Some of the
newer vehicle music systems can
generate well up to 130 decibels
(with 85 dB’s being dangerous after 8
hours; 115+ dB is dangerous after
a mere 30 seconds)! And, once you
have a noise-induced hearing loss, it
is permanent! That is why prevention
is essential.
Music is a simple pleasure for many
of us, but it can cause permanent
damage by way of hearing loss or
tinnitus. If you, or a loved one, are a
music-lover, we encourage you to
contact us for special “musician ear
plugs”. They temper the intensity, but
allow the sound quality to still be heard
at levels that are safe for your hearing
It may surprise you to learn that it is not pleasure.
just pop, rock, rap, electronica or other Remember: “An ounce of prevention
kinds of contemporary music that can is worth a pound of cure”. This is a
cause hearing loss; it’s all music. One good time to harken to your mother’s
study involving the Chicago Symphony blast from the past, “Turn that noise
found that more than 50% of its down!”
Answers to September Events
From pg. 4
1. BACK TO SCHOOL
6. POP QUIZ
2. TEACHERS
7. END OF SUMMER
3. RECESS
— FUN FACTS —
No word in the English
language rhymes with month,
orange, silver or purple.
8. LABOR DAY
4. BACKPACK
9. UNIONS
5. BLACKBOARD
10.THREE DAY WEEKEND
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