When Dr. Winnett fitted Mom with her new hearing aids, he promised her she would hear so well that flushing the toilet would sound like Niagara Falls.  Her hearing was severe enough that she likely could barely, if at all, hear the toilet flush.  She giggled after she used the toilet that first day, reporting that the toilet paper rustled like dry corn sheaves, and the toilet flush did indeed sound like Niagara Falls.  She has also turned down the TV volume from 45 to 38, much to my relief.  And she can hear me talk from the kitchen.  And I don’t have to shout much anymore.  And she is brighter and more aware and more cheerful and more engaged with company.  And I only had to remind her once how to plug the hearings aids into their nighttime charger.

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