If its the very last thing I do on earth, I WILL get her another hearing aid.

Dog ate one when he was a puppy.

The one she came to Alabama with, honestly, I don't think it works at all.

Nobody gets "you have to talk LOUD" for Mom to hear you. They'll start out loud, and next thing you know, they back to their usual tone of conversation, which Mom misinturpits all the time. Then they think she has dimentia, cause she answers with off the wall answer to "what she thought they asked".

It makes Mom so mad she can't hear them, after asking many times to "please speak up" and "Pardon me....I still can't hear you".

I'd told Mom a few weeks ago, we needed to do something about this, if it took my share of the inheritance she's hanging on to for dear life! Honestly, I'd much rather her hear NOW, than me get anything later.

We need to get an audiologist (sp) anyway to teach me how to clean the one hearing aid she has. I did learn how to put a battery in. Thank God for instructions that came with the batteries!

If they can't adjust the one she has, and just buy another one for the one the dog chewed, we'll just get a new set. My Mom SO deserves to hear what all is going on around her!

She misses that hearing a lot too. I'm so lucky she WILL wear them. I know so many others refuse to wear them. But I look at it this way, you will wear glasses so you can see, why not hearing aid so you can hear. Both are very important to your well being.

Torp, Mom doesn't have dimentia, or alheimers. Thank God!!! She's just a frail 94 year old woman, who has her mind, but sight and hearing both pretty shot.

Her sight is well enough, if its very large print. She loves the puzzle books where you circle words. But they have to be in large print. I find them at dollar tree a lot.

As for the hearing, I'll be so glad when she gets the new aids! At least that IS something we can fix! Then I won't have to talk so loud, the neighbors know all our business! Also when someone rings the doorbell and she has the tv on, maybe I can hear the doorbell!

Yea, if it takes my entire inheritance for her to see or hear, I'll spend it! She's much more important when she's here. Money comes and goes, but I only have her for whatever time I have her. I feel I'm getting my "inheritance" by having her to spend quality time with before she leaves this world.

One suggestion I have is that if mom has dementia, don't let them sell you the expensive directional hearing aid or other special programmable features. Our LO never could figure them out, and would fiddle with the aids in her ear and get them turned off. We finally took them back to the audiologist and had them reprogrammed so that no matter how many times she accidently hit that tiny button, they stay on until you remove the battery.

we share the hearing aid issue, and it ain't cheap. I really appreciate that you are not truely considering money that your Mom has and needs to be yours by some right. Some of us do have elders who try to sacrifice to leave something behind. Bless them.

Hearing is even more important when the vision is compromised. They have trouble with facial expressions, reading lips. Mom enjoys visits, but when people start talking to each other and having "sub-conversations", the background noise is a real issue. Still, I want folks to come to visit. If I act like a control freak over every detail, I can't blame them for stopping.

If I see Mom looking lost, I speak directly to her about what is going on loud enough to make the point "she is still here, and she still matters". Most people get the hint for 5-10 minutes before they forget. On the other hand, poor Hub wants to know why I "yell" at him. Sorry, I don't switch hats as fast as I need to.