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Hearing Aids For Everyone!
Submitted by: Shauna Taylor
Newfoundland, CanadaI live in Newfoundland, Canada, and I have genetic hearing loss.
I was in my early 30s and was very embarrassed of, and was ignoring an increasing problem. I was suffering from hearing loss. After a demeaning and unhelpful appointment with an ENT, I resigned myself to living with not hearing everything and feeling like a nuisance to friends, coworkers, and family.
One day a free magazine was delivered to my office and I happened to glance at it. Inside was a spotlight on a local Hearing Aid business and the owner was a young woman who herself wore a hearing aid! I made an appointment immediately. I felt if anyone could understand how embarrassing this was it would be her and that this magazine had been delivered to me specifically to see this article. Krista was a godsend and I am thankful every day that I made an appointment. She gave me back the gift of hearing. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
However, that’s not all.
I have genetic hearing loss and my father was almost completely deaf. I convinced him to come with me and get fitted for hearing aids but he thought they would be too costly. I offered to pay but he would not agree but Krista discounted better hearing aids for him so that he could hear because she had heard me offer to pay for him! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
But wait! There is more! My mother also developed poor hearing after suffering a cardiac arrest that left her without oxygen for 20 minutes. Krista holds a contest where she gives away top of the line hearing aids once a year. My mother badly needed hearing aids and it was just a very costly endeavor again but we entered her name and she won!! My mother won a set of $6000 hearing aids! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I believe that Krista and her colleague Anne Marie are miracle workers and I want them to know the gratitude that I have for them and the amazing gifts that they give to people can never ever be measured. Their gifts are priceless. Thank you!!