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949-484-4310 Get a package of batteries www.advancedearcare.com when you schedule an FUNNY BONE appointment for: “A cheerful heart is good medicine ...” • Updated hearing screening A funny thing happened on the way to better hearing... • Lifestyle assesment Stuart Spencer, My patient, Brian, had resisted BC-HIS • Measurement of how well upgrading his hearing aids until Board Certified your hearing aids are his youngest son, Paul, secretly Hearing Instrument functioning recorded him during the family’s Sciences © AUDIOGENIC, INC. – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Thanksgiving get-together. After Brian saw the replay of Paul’s phone video, he conceded to giving Now ‘Ear This from the Expert NAME THAT STAR the family his Christmas present of Answers on pg. 3 new hearing aids. Here are some other examples: IT’S “SQUEEZY” TO SEE IF YOUR With the Oscar statuette due to make its next Son, Greg (realtor): “I had just HEARING AID IS WORKING! appearance on February 24th at the 91st Academy closed the sale on that horse Awards Ceremony, this seems like a good time property I’ve been working on since Are My Hearing Aids Really Helping? Sometimes it’s hard to hearing aid that is not. Then to remember some of our past favorites from the July, when the next-door rancher be sure if a hearing aid is squeeze it. If the “dead” Last month we addressed the commonly Patients sometimes tell me they don’t Silver Screen. How many of these talented stars threw a monkey wrench into the working or not. How do you hearing aid comes “alive”, a deal.” asked question: “How do I know if the know if their hearing aids are really can you match to their given names? know if the aid is not working, new battery is the answer. Brian: “A donkey ranch...? Just like hearing aids I’m wearing are the best helping them to hear better or not. That’s or if it simply needs a new If the hearing aid remains 1. Edward G. Robinson a. __ Eleanor Geisman that, a neighboring rancher offered ones for me?” This month we’ll address a common question for those who are battery (or recharging)? “dead” with the “live” battery a donkey ranch to your client buying a similar question: How do I know if my hard of hearing. When someone has 2. Mickey Rooney b. __ Shirley Schrift the horse property?” One easy way to make sure in it, try cleaning it, or bring it hearing aids are working well for me? hearing loss, they actually lose their 3. Jennifer Jones c. __ Margaret Mary +++++++++++++++++ Cont. pg 3 that a battery is in the hearing to us to check it out. Emily Anne Hyra Daughter, Cynthia: “I finally got that aid(s) or is fully charged, is to This method isn’t scientific, 4. Tony Randall part for the theater that I’ve wanted d. __ Issur Danielovitch put the aid in the palm of your to say the least. It’s not fail 5. Richard Burton for so long.” 100 Years of Distinguished Service hand and gently squeeze proof, but it gives you a fairly Demsky 6. June Allyson Brian: “What part did you need your hand into a fist. If you fast and “squeezy” way to e. __ Anna Marie Louisa for your heater? Maybe I had Most of us go about our selfless and heroic acts hear a squealing whistle, quickly test the aid. You can 7. Kirk Douglas Italiano something in the garage.” daily activities and put above and beyond the the hearing aid is generally also hold the hearing aid +++++++++++++++++ 8. Meg Ryan f. __ Emanuel our children to sleep at normal sacrifices of mili- working fine. up to your ear and push the 9. Anne Bancroft Goldenberg Son-in-law, Mark: “I’m having so night without giving much tary duty. It is on this dis- setting buttons (if available) Sometimes one aid is much trouble working on this latest thought to all the men tinguished group that we 10. Bruce Willis g. __ Ruby Catherine lawsuit; I can’t seem to get my working, and the other is on the instrument. If you hear footing on it. Just preparing the writ and women around the are putting the spotlight any beeps, tones or words 11. Barbara Stanwyck Stevens not. Is it simply in need of a has worn me out and last night I fell world who daily put their for February. new battery or a recharge, or coming from the hearing aid h. __ Walter Bruce Willis 12. Shelley Winters off to sleep again, exhausted. own lives on the line for This month, the Navy does it need more attention? speaker, it’s good to go. i. __ Phyllis Lee Isley Brian: “Wow! Who are you suing us. Distinguished Service The fastest way to get Anytime you need j. __ Aryeh (Arthur) Leonard because you fell off a cliff again? We owe a debt of grati- Medal turns one that answer—and to avoid assistance with checking a And when did you fall off a cliff Rosenberg tude to each and every hundred years old. This wasting several batteries, weak hearing aid or one that before?” member of our military prestigious medal of thinking they’re all “dead”— doesn’t seem to be working k. __ Richard Walter If Santa didn’t bring you hearing for their unselfish ser- recognition was created is to remove the battery at all, give us call! We’re Jenkins Jr. aids for Christmas, show your vice. Some have dem- on February 4, 1919 “to from the hearing aid that experts at “getting you back loved one you’re all heart for is l. __ Joseph Yule, Jr. onstrated extraordinarily recognize distinguished working and insert it in the on the air”. Valentine’s Day and schedule an appointment with us now. 4 Call us today! Cont. pg 2 1 100 Years of Distinguished Service Are My Hearing Aids Really Helping? — LOONEY LAW — Cont. From pg. 1 Cont. From pg. 1 State legislation in Massachusetts ability to know what “normal” hearing forbids dueling with water pistols. and exceptionally meritorious service Recipients of this Distinguished really sounds like, so we understand to the United States while serving in a Service Medal “must notably why patients ask questions like the duty or position of great responsibility.” demonstrate exceptional performance one above. ‘Great responsibility’ interprets as above normal expectations of duties”, — POTPOURRI — Here are a few more very common senior military responsibility, and and “significantly contribute to the TIDBITS ON questions: the Distinguished Service Medal is success of a major command or WASHINGTON, LINCOLN & normally only bestowed upon senior project”. This decoration is the Navy SUPER BOWL SUNDAY • Am I hearing as well as I should Navy flag officers, senior enlisted and Marine Corps equivalent to the Abraham Lincoln: Our 16th be hearing? positions, and Marine Corps general Distinguished Service Medals of the president was 6’4” tall, matched • Do other patients say they officers. Air Force, Army and Coast Guard. only by President Lyndon John- still struggle to hear clearly in son. certain situations? As World War I began, the only The first decoration was presented without them for a day (or at least a Assistant Secretary of Defense for George Washington: Our first decoration authorized by Congress posthumously to Brigadier General • Is my hearing going to get few hours). You will quickly notice a Reserve Affairs, Thomas F. Hall, pins the president had to borrow money to for the U.S. Navy and its counterpart, Charles A. Doyen, USMC, on March Distinguished Service Medal on Rear worse? significant difference in hearing. You’ll attend his own first inauguration. the Marine Corps, to recognize 13, 1919. Other notable recipients are Admiral John P. Debbout • Am I going to lose all of my increase the TV or car radio volume. exceptional heroism was the coveted Thomas Edison, President Dwight —August 12, 2005 AFL-NFL Super Bowl: The Na- hearing? You will start to look at people’s lips, tional Football and American Medal of Honor. Some heroic acts D. Eisenhower, General Douglas Congress in August 1942. It is currently instead of their eyes, when they’re Football Leagues merged in • Are the hearing aids causing me deserved recognition but were not of MacArthur and Rear Admiral Alan worn after the Defense Distinguished talking to you. Your own voice will 1966. to lose my hearing faster? the supreme criteria level required to Shepard, Jr., astronaut. Service Medal and before the Silver These are all very real and serious sound softer or more distant (even receive the Medal of Honor, so both Star Medal. The first competitive Big Game The Distinguished Service Medal concerns for people with hearing loss, though you are probably speaking the USN Distinguished Service Medal was played between 1967 sea- louder than you do while wearing was originally superior to the Navy Thank you and congratulations to son champions—the Green Bay particularly if wearing hearing aids is a and the Navy Cross were created to your aids). You’ll ask people to repeat Cross but the precedence of the any person who has received this Packers and the Kansas City relatively new experience. It’s easy to fill that void. themselves more often. It won’t two decorations was reversed by prestigious recognition. Chiefs—under the lackluster lose perspective on what is “normal”, name of “The AFL-NFL World so let me put your mind at ease. take long to discover how much your Championship Game”. hearing aids help. Most of our patients get used to hearing Lamar Hunt, founder of the better (more clearly and accurately) If you would like to have further Buddys Bio­—Watering The Christ-mas Tree American Football League, is while wearing their aids. That sound verification that you are hearing as credited with tagging the Game level becomes the new “normal”. best as possible with your hearing with its catchier title, Super Bowl. When you remove your hearing aids, aids, make an appointment for speech The term was officially adopted we are creating our While we were busy with masterpieces, we missed you experience what seems to be a recognition testing. With scientific in 1970. delightful indulgences, we all of the baking, Buddy Buddy’s signals that he drop in hearing acuity. Actually, this measurement, and the assistance of a listen to Christmas carols. was busy watering the needed to go out. But more From its beginning in 1967, Su- is your normal “hearing loss” level of friend of family member, we can show Adults, adult kids and Christmas tree! Mariela likely he was just tee’d-off per Bowl was played on the last hearing, without amplification. That you that you are hearing the best you Sunday of January. America’s grandchildren all enjoy the caught him red-handed (or that he wasn’t the center of is one easy way to realize that your can! mourning of the September day and leave with a wide more accurately, with his attention! hearing aids are helping you—all day, Call us today so you can be assured 11, 2001 tragedy rescheduled variety of butter cookies, leg up) watering every day! you’re doing everything you can to our tree. That was the game, to be played the first sugar cookies, fudge, Sunday in February 2002. This keep your hearing in top shape. the last time we Another easy way to tell if your hearing chocolate/peanut butter year’s Super Bowl is scheduled saw Buddy all day! aids are working well for you is to go Ahhh...Christ-mas treats, lemon bars and for Sunday, February 3rd. Memories more! He was relegated to the back yard. The Spencer household had Flour is flying and there With all of Buddy’s Answers to “Name that Star” a fantastic Christ-mas and are plenty of spills. Some — FUN FACTS — mischief over the From pg. 4 New Year’s celebrations. I recipes don’t quite come years, he’s never Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the 1. Edward G. Robinson—f 7. Kirk Douglas—d had mentioned last month out right because we forgot done that before. physician who set the broken leg of Lincoln’s assassin, John 2. Mickey Rooney—l 8. Meg Ryan—c that one of our traditions is to an ingredient or two. No one I guess we were Wilkes Booth. This act, ill- 3. Jennifer Jones—i 9. Anne Bancroft —e get the family together early cares about the error; we so wrapped up received by the public, spawned 4. Tony Randall —j 10. Bruce Willis—h in December and spend the just keep moving forward. with creating our day baking. While the derisive expression, “His 5. Richard Burton—k 11. Barbara Stanwyck—g name is Mudd.” 6. June Allyson—a 2 12. Shelly Winters—b 3