GENERAL
MEETING:
WHERE: Joslyn Senior Center Auditorium
WHEN: Saturday, November 13, 2010
TIME: 10:00 a.m. until noon
PROGRAM: Roberta Smith, representative for CTAP, (California Telephone Access Program) who will show us what’s new in phones and phone related accessories. What’s more, she will bring a captioner so we can read on the big screen what Roberta says. How good is that!
Bill Klein will start the meeting promptly at ten, so please come early to sign in, and also to give you time to buy the raffle tickets for the 50-50 drawing. Bring your money and get in on the fun. (Please: No $20 bills!) You are also helping our Chapter’s treasury this way.
Remember, there is parking in the back of the Senior Center and you can enter through the kitchen.
During the meeting, if you have a t-coil on your hearing aid (if you don’t, you should!) turn it on to take advantage of the loop system that is installed in the auditorium of the JSC. We also do have listening devices on the back table in the event your hearing aid is bereft of the t-coil.
After the business meeting and before the program we have a 15-20 minute social time with coffee and cookies. This is a great time to socialize with one another.
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We had a lot of visitors at our September meeting: Linda Holman and Velma Carter from Escondido; Susan Almond from Carlsbad; John Rauch and Ellen Peckham from Poway; Karen Penna from O’side; Sandor Hejja from Valley Center; Manuel Avila from Vista; Marilyn Weinhouse from Coronado; George Friedrick and Marian Hamburg from San Diego and Gerry Henchy from San Marcos.
Some were first timers but many of them have been back a number of times and we are so glad when they do come back. Visitors are always welcome.
FROM MY COMPUTER:
Our
thanks to Audiologist, Margie Houston
for a most informative program she presented to us in September. Does anyone in our group wear the “Wow”
hearing aid that she told us about? It’s
awesome in that it’s invisible and stays in the ear for eight months.
As for the Bluetooth technology, I’m afraid it’s still way over my head, sigh.
And our thanks to Bill Klein for stepping up to moderate our business meetings from now on. It’s because of him and Audrey that our chapter is still alive. Eric and I appreciate all the help we can get.
After years of struggling with our Website we may finally have it working, thanks to Eric’s and my daughter who was visiting us Labor Day weekend. She is a Graphic Artist and does her work on a Mac but by golly, she knew what to do on Eric’s Windows XP. www.hearinglossescondido.org is the website address.
David Illich is scheduled to be our speaker in January (remember, we are meeting only every other month now.)
And in March we’ll have Marilyn Weinhouse talk about the assistive listening devices (ALDs) she is selling and will even have some we can try out right then and there at the meeting. Can’t wait until then? Send her an email at marilyn@heargear.net or call her at 619-316-1817 to make an appointment. You may be very glad you did!
Dorothy
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Happiness comes through doors you didn’t even know you left open.
HEAR for the HOLIDAYS ESSAY CONTEST
Give the gift of Hearing this Holiday Season
Once again, Phonak Hearing Systems and David M. Illich Au.D., Chief Audiologist for Professional Hearing Associates are joining the efforts in hosting the 6th annual Hear for the Holidays program to award a deserving hearing-impaired person living in the Palomar-Pomerado Health district with a new pair of the latest Phonak digital hearing aids and a lifetime of free office visits.
To enter the essay contest:
Submit an essay of 500 words or less describing why you or a loved one deserves and would benefit from new hearing aids. The winning essay will be chosen according to the following criteria:
Ø Financial need and inability to acquire quality hearing devices and care.
Ø Degree of hearing loss – to be determined by David Illich, Aud.D
Ø Quality of Essay.
Essays are accepted from October 18 to December 3.
Winner will be announced on December 6.
Submit your essay via email to hear4theholidays@hotmail.com or mail to Professional Hearing Associate, 1045 East Valley Parkway, Escondido, CA 92025
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Hearing Loss Affects All Age Groups
The most recent Marke-Trak study of hearing loss in the U.S. (conducted and recently published by the Better Hearing Institute) found the following:
About 65 percent of people with hearing loss are younger than 65.
There are more than 6 million people in the U.S. between the ages of 18 and 44 with hearing loss.
Nearly 1.5 million school age children have a measurable hearing loss.
The incidence of hearing loss in the U.S. is 11.3 percent.
Source: Wired
for Sound, Sept 2010
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COENZYME Q10 for HEARING LOSS
Dr Julian Whitaker
Nearly
one in five American teenagers has some degree of hearing loss – a 30 percent
increase over the past decade. I’m not
surprised, given how many kids you see listening to loud music through “ear
buds” plugged into their iPods. The bad
news is this may be setting them up for serious hearing loss in the future, as
presbycusis (age related changes in the ears that lead to diminished hearing)
creeps up and compounds the problem.
Fortunately, there is a supplement that appears to slow down and
actually reverse hearing loss.
Italian researchers divided 56 to 74 year
olds with presbycusis into three groups and gave them daily doses of coenzyme
Q10 (160 mg) vitamin E (50 mg), or a placebo.
After 30 days, the group taking CoQ10 had marked improvements in both
low and high frequencies on audiometry testing.
Those who took vitamin E had a little improvement but the placebo
group’s tests were essentially unchanged.
If you are experiencing any degree of hearing loss – regardless of your
age – CoQ10 is worth a shot. Magnesium, zinc,
vitamin C and folic acid have also shown promise in preserving hearing.
You can find these supplements in your
health food store.
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. . .And in his same newsletter, Dr Whitaker says,
“Consuming
moderate amounts of alcohol reduces both the risk of developing rheumatoid
arthritis and the severity of existing disease.”
Well, WHEE! To
really do the job, bottoms up?
Co-Presidents:
Eric & Dorothy Wormser 747-3813
Meeting Moderator: Bill Klein
Phone:
760-966-2604 * E-mail: William2002k@yahoo.com
Vice President: Philip Denham – 432-6486
Program Chairpersons:
Eric and Dorothy
Board Member: Bob Broxholme – 746-1929 Board Member: Gil Needle – (858) 485-0300
Secretary: Sylvia Hedlund – 745-5408
Treasurer: Jackie Wistort – (858) 521-8250
Newsletter Editor: Dorothy Wormser – 747-3813
E-mails: ewormser@cox.net Dorothy: dorthi@cox.net
Eric’s fax: (760) 737-9149
Web site: www.hearinglossescondido.org
National’s web
site: www.hearingloss.org
Frustrated by Voice Mail You Can’t
Understand?
Read your messages instead! Phone Tag is the answer, according to Jaynie Kind of the Peninsula Chapter.
Phone Tag is a voicemail-to-text service. They transcribe your voicemail message using voice recognition technology and deliver it, along with the original audio, to your email account and/or to your cell phone as a text message. It is all automatic.
Easy to set up, the cost is $9.95 a month or $.35 per message. For further information go to their website: www.phonetag..com
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What
To Be Thankful For
Anonymous
The minister of the
church was giving a Thanksgiving service. A ragged man in the audience asked, "What
is there to be thankful for?"
Surprised, the minister
replied, "What is your name, sir?"
"Cause," was the reply.
"Well, Cause, you could be
thankful for your healthy body..."
"I'm blind and I have lung cancer."
"...or your family..."
"I don't have a family"
"...or your home..."
"I don't have a home."
"Well, then I guess you’re a lost
Cause!" _________________________________________
. . . . and Christmas:
The time when everyone gets Santamental.
I know. I know. People say, "It's the thought that counts, not the gift." But couldn't people think a little bigger!
Santa Claus sure is a jolly fellow! Imagine all that driving and still being able to say "Ho! Ho! Ho!"
Every year, Christmas becomes less a birthday and more a clearance sale.
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