Last Monday, I had my last appointment to check how things were going with my hearing aids. Now, I just need to have my hearing checked every 3 years (unless I feel there is a problem prior to that.) and probably have to replace the hearing aids at that point as well. And I accidently wore them while I took a bath after working in the yard--not a problem until I decided to sink my head into the water. Fortunately, I immediately felt the hearing aids and grabbed them off. And they were fine! Dr. Peart, my audiologist, had said that everyone does that one time or another. It is a sign that you have gotten used to wearing them. So, that is good, I guess. But I don't want to have to replace these expensive aids because I forgot and got them too wet. Hopefully a lesson learned!
I wanted to talk a bit about Dr. Peart.
Back in February, after going through my insurance's on-line hearing screening, I was given a list of places I could go who took my insurance. I knew that I wanted an audiologist office and not just a hearing aid specialist. I have a friend whose husband is an audiologist and she is a speech therapist and she had posted about hearing and what to expect and require if you are having problems with your hearing. I was impressed by her information and was determined to follow her suggestions if the need ever arose. They live in Montana so using her husband was out of the question. But I looked for a place which would provide the services she had suggested.
I literally prayed as I reviewed my options as I wanted to go to the "right" person. Interestingly, most of the doctors I have been dealing with lately have been assigned or chosen for me by my family practice doctor or the referral process and they have all been great. However, since I was choosing, I wanted to pick the right one. It was just a feeling I had--even though I didn't think my hearing was a very complicated situation--just the regular getting older thing.
I felt right about this practice which is in South Ogden, further than I wanted to go, but it felt good and all of the audiologists were women which I liked as well. I was assigned to Dr. Stephanie Peart--and it turned out that she was the "right one"---again not because I had a complicated case, it is not. However, we connected in fun ways for both of us and made the whole experience sweet. It is a minor thing in the totality of our lives, but it was good and I felt that it was guided to happen.
Dr. Peart also lives in Syracuse in the Bluff Stake. She is probably in her mid-forties. She also serves as the Gospel Doctrine teacher in her ward on the same Sunday which I also usually teach Gospel Doctrine so we had fun conversations about that.
She is a temple worker at the Ogden Temple on Friday afternoons and will also serve in the Syracuse Temple starting in June. She has been asked to be the Live Endowment coordinator for her shift just as Gary has been called to do that for his shift on Saturday.
The most fun connection is that her son, who took Chinese immersion in school from kindergarten on, is currently serving as a mission in the same Taiwan mission where my friends, Bruce and Michelle Cummings, are the mission leaders. I was able to reach out to Michelle about the connection and she sent a cute reply that I was able to share with Dr. Peart. There is always something special about these connections and inter-connections. She said when she spoke to her son later that he mentioned that both President and Sister Cummings had commented to him that their friend knew his mom. Michelle said that he is an excellent missionary so that was fun to share as well.
In the grand scheme of things, it probably makes no difference to how the world turns or global warming, but for her and I, it was a sweet collection of connections and truly isn't that some of the richest blessings of this mortal life.
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