Making the most of today’s opportunities

“You only come by this way once in life, so I always ask myself ‘am I making the most of today’s opportunities’ - this is why hearing aids have been good for me. They have maximised my ordinary opportunities. They are about the quality of my life. “I didn’t think that I needed hearing aids,” she comments. “But unnoticed and gradually you lose an edge.” Dame Lois’ work at a Dunedin pharmacy, a five day a week job, was her catalyst to have a hearing test. “At the pharmacy, even when people were directly in front of me I had to lean in closer to hear. It was difficult to hear names when people came in to collect prescriptions. “I realised it was time to lift my standard of hearing,” she says. Dame Lois says she has known people with hearing problems who gradually excluded themselves from life. But this was not going to be her choice. So with she made an appointment at Audiology South. And what a difference that decision has made

to her quality of life, she says. “These hearing aids have restored sounds that I didn’t even know I had lost, but the real beauty is that I can hear people! I am a people person and genuinely enjoy the opportunity to be more involved with those around me. It has been a heck of a boost to my quality of life being able to hear what is said, and be part of it. I’ve been to restaurants and social gatherings and hear far better, all around me, it is a tremendous benefit.”

Dame Lois says that people may be daunted by the prospect of hearing aids. “Anthony Rowcroft at Audiology South knows how difficult the first step can be, but nothing is ever a bother for him and he makes the process easy and non-threatening”.

“These hearing aids have restored sounds that I didn’t even know I had lost” Dame Lois Muir