The Moment She Realized Her Dad Couldn’t Hear Her Anymore
A woman messaged me after reading The Hearing Aid Handbook, and I still think about what she shared.
“It was a Sunday morning. I stopped by my parents’ house with coffee. My dad was sitting in his chair, reading the paper like always. I said something to him—something small about the weather—and he smiled and nodded. But I could tell… he didn’t hear a word I said.”
That was the moment it hit her.
Not all at once. Not because he was struggling or complaining. But because the silence between them had started to mean something.
She told me that over the next few weeks, she started noticing other things. Her dad asking her to repeat herself. Answering questions that hadn’t been asked. Laughing a little too late at a joke. Turning the TV up louder than anyone else in the house could stand.
“I realized I’d started adjusting to his hearing loss. I was the one making accommodations—speaking up, slowing down, skipping parts of stories because they were too hard to explain again.”
It wasn’t about volume. It was about connection.
Hearing loss has a quiet way of pulling people apart.
Not because anyone meant for it to.
But because missed words become missed moments.
And slowly, you stop trying as hard.
This woman said she felt lost. How do you bring it up without hurting his feelings? How do you suggest hearing aids without implying that someone’s “broken”?
That’s when someone handed her a copy of The Hearing Aid Handbook.
“It was the first thing I’d seen that explained everything in a kind, honest way. It didn’t talk down to him. It didn’t make him feel old. We actually read parts of it together—and for the first time, we were able to talk about it without tension.”
Her dad eventually got hearing aids. The process wasn’t instant or perfect—but it brought them back to each other.
The sounds. The laughter. The conversation.
If you’ve had a moment like that—or think one might be coming—The Hearing Aid Handbook can help you make that turn before the silence grows too wide.
👉 Whether it’s for your parent, your partner, or yourself, this book is a place to begin—with compassion, not pressure.
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