I made my living as a singer for over 40 years in venues ranging from The Montreal Jazz Festival to Rio de Janeiro, Caesar's Palace, Austin City Limits, countless outdoor festivals and theater venues, playing thousands of live shows with hours of sound checks, monitor level settings and thousands of hours in the recording studio. I have hearing loss as a result of four decades of being exposed to every frequency at extremely high volumes for hours on end. Recently, I realized I am watching TV with the volume all the way up and still having to turn on the captions to understand dialogue. Enough is enough. My health insurance covers hearing exams and instruments 100% and Dr. Edwards was listed as a provider on my plan. I saw on her website that she has 30 years experience, and I decided immediately to call for an appointment.
When I walked out of her office with my new hearing aids, the world was a completely different place. The MOMENT I stepped outside her office and walked to my car, it was as if a shroud had been lifted from the world around me. Having your hearing restored has an effect on your brain that can only be described as phenomenal. Restoring my hearing has changed my visual perceptions. Restoring my hearing has changed my mental perceptions of everything around me and I am convinced this has had a monumental positive impact on the depression I have been experiencing. Restoring my hearing has completely changed my mental processes and has impacted every one of my senses. Restoring my hearing is like getting my brain back into the sunlight. It took over 40 years to lose the ability to hear these frequencies, tones, timbres and the millions of subtle stimuli that the brain perceives. Once they were restored in an instant, my brain awoke to a whole new world. This is a completely accurate assessment of what it is like to have your hearing restored. I still have two more adjustments to go because Dr. Edwards brings the brain back gently and gradually into the hearing world, but I cannot over emphasize enough that this is not just about your ears, it is about your brain and the way it perceives and processes everything around you. My entire world had been changed by this experience.
The exam is as thorough as it is fascinating, and Dr. Edwards and her staff were fully aware of my insurance coverage and made sure that everything was covered 100%. I had no copay or monetary charges of any kind. None whatsoever. Her follow up treatment is superb. Help or answers are but a phone call away, and she is available to see or help - always.
This goes so far beyond hearing conversations. This is opening your brain back up to the world it has been shut away from for, in my case, 40 years. Call her and make your appointment. We are fortunate to have this brilliant Doctor right here in Weatherford, and if you will go see her and see what she can do for you, you will see what I'm talking about when I say I got every one of my senses back. What a fascinating, phenomenal experience this is. Dr. Edwards gave me my own PBS special right here in my own head. Brilliant. Dr. Terri Edwards has completely changed my life.
Trudy Fair - Weatherford