Hearing News

It’s been an exciting week at Parkway Hearing. I am always looking at new ways to bring greater exposure to the field of Audiology, and this week I attended National Night Out in Roslindale Village. It was a great event with several local businesses and organizations, including Parkway Rotary and Edelweiss Village, to name a few. It was extremely HOT but well-attended! I even got a chance to meet Mayor Marty Walsh.

The City of Boston is working to create a more age-friendly and dementia-friendly city. I am proud to announce that Parkway Hearing was the first business in the city to be recognized as an “Age Friendly” business. We had age-friendly representative Nicole Chandler come into our office for an age friendly inspection and we also took part in a training to make our business more age inclusive. We are thrilled to be a part of a great group of local businesses. To see other businesses who have taken these steps, visit the City's Age Friendly Business webpage.

I wanted to share (with permission, of course) a recent email I received from a patient. She had misplaced her hearing aids and in her brief time without them reflected on their importance.

“It was awful. I hadn’t put them in until getting to my desk, face it I don’t really need to hear traffic, so I knew they were close. I had a meeting at my desk, then a coffee room/potty break before I noticed.

Surely, I would find it quickly.

It was amazing that everyone knew how important they were, stopped what they were doing and helped me look for them.

I went back to my office space and in childlike frustration, dumped the contents of my briefcase on the floor, hoping maybe it fell in there and the first search overlooked it.

It didn’t, it wasn’t in there.

When I sat down on the floor to pick it all back up, I saw a tiny clear plastic wire sticking out of my chair (I had checked the whole chair seat and corners first thing.)

Never take hearing for granted is the lesson you taught me. Having this temporary loss again was such a blessed reminder of what you have given me. Thank you, Dr. Ulrich.”