• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

Doctors of Audiology

  • Home
  • Contact Us
  • Our Doctors
  • Videos
  • Hearing Aids
    • Unitron
    • Oticon
    • Resound
    • Seimens
    • Widex
    • Phonak
    • Noise & Swim Plugs
    • Audiograms Explained
  • Tinnitus
    • Tinnitus affects quality of life
    • Counseling Tinnitus and Misophonia
    • Resound
    • Widex Zen
    • Neuromonics
    • OasisPro
  • Balance
  • Cochlear Implants
  • CaptionCall Phone
  • Show Search
Hide Search

“Is it alive?!”…By Amy Welman, Au.D Family Hearing and Balance Center

Dropping my kids off at daycare this morning, I noticed a slightly distraught looking parent standing next to his car with his kids inside and he was on the phone.  It didn’t seem like an emergency situation so I took my kids inside and the teacher was standing at the window watching the parent who was on the phone.   I asked if everything was ok?  The teacher calmly said, “Yes, but the kid has a bee in their nose”.  My heart rate instantly increased and my eyes widened and I said “OH NO!  IS IT ALIVE?”.   The teacher turned and looked at me, then squinted at me, then smiled…..and said…B…E…A….D…  there is a bead in their nose. We both had a good laugh at my misunderstanding.

I hear stories like this from a lot of patients and I wanted to let everyone know that it’s normal to miss something now and then, and our brains have a way of “hearing what it wants” sometimes.  Even with hearing aids or normal hearing mistakes are made and it’s ok to have a laugh about it.  It’s when those “mistakes” affect daily communication or interfere with job performance that it might be time to get some help.


 

Written by:
Richard Reikowski
Published on:
May 17, 2019
Thoughts:
9 Comments

Categories: 330-644-1932, Blog Categories Go Here, Community Outreach, Educational, Hearing, Hearing Aids, Miscellaneous, New Technology, Patient care, Philosophy, Phone Numbers, Slider, Testimonials, TinnitusTags: Akron Hearing Aids, ASHA American Speech and Hearing Association, Audiologist, audiology, Dr. Richard S. Reikowski, dr.richard reikowski, family hearing and balance center.cardinal hearing centers, Hearing Aids, Hearing Aids in Akron, hearing doctor, hearing loss, Hearing Testing, Ohio Academy of Audiology, Stark County, Summit County

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Dale Hansen

    May 17, 2019 at 9:27 am

    LOL…love it!

    Log in to Reply
    • Rich Reikowski

      May 22, 2019 at 6:18 am

      Same!

      Log in to Reply
  2. Marie

    May 17, 2019 at 10:02 am

    This is fantastic. 🙂 Hope everything came out alright.

    Log in to Reply
    • Rich Reikowski

      May 22, 2019 at 6:18 am

      I hope so too!

      Log in to Reply
  3. Kelly Workman

    May 20, 2019 at 8:34 am

    Such a great and realistic story about misunderstanding speech! This happens!

    Log in to Reply
    • Rich Reikowski

      May 22, 2019 at 6:18 am

      Well said Kelly! It sure does…

      Log in to Reply
  4. Gail

    May 20, 2019 at 9:55 am

    Lol, great story!

    Log in to Reply
    • Rich Reikowski

      May 22, 2019 at 6:18 am

      🙂

      Log in to Reply
  5. Rich Reikowski

    May 22, 2019 at 6:19 am

    This was a great story Amy and a very real situation of hearing things that sound so similar. Our talk recently on bees and this was a great example!

    Log in to Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Explore more

Previous Blogs

Footer

Subscribe


Contact Us

Akron  330-644-1932

Northfield  330-468-4288

Log in

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Diversity Statement*Privacy Policy