Power Up Your Inner FLO

It started small. You asked people to repeat themselves a little more often. You smiled and nodded through conversations you could not fully follow. You started choosing the quiet seat, skipping the noisy dinner, letting the group talk wash over you while you drifted somewhere else. You told yourself it was nothing, just getting older, just being tired. But untreated hearing loss does not stay in...

You turn the TV up a little louder than you used to. You ask "what?" more than you would like to admit. Restaurants and group conversations leave you exhausted from the effort of trying to keep up. You know hearing has gotten harder, but you keep putting off doing anything about it, because the only fix you can picture is a pair of expensive, uncomfortable hearing aids you never wanted to wear. So...

Some mornings you do not know what your body is going to give you. The energy, the clarity, the version of yourself you were counting on, gone again without warning. And the hardest part is not even the illness. It is being told to stay positive, to be grateful, to find the lesson, while you are just trying to get through the day in a body that keeps changing the rules on you. When life keeps taki...