Thanks Sue! I feel your pain. This has been progressing over time but it wasn’t until being confined in that smaller area that it really impacted me just how much hearing loss he must have. And how loud commercials are on TV!! Yikes, I had to keep turning the volume down between segments. I know masks don’t help when we’re out in public either.

I’m not a quiet person having grown up in a household with my father losing most of his hearing from loud machinery in a paper mill. I learned to talk very loudly and that’s been hard to shake. Ironically, when my husband and I were dating, 50+ years ago, he would tell me that I talk too loudly! Hahah. So now he tells me to talk louder and quit mumbling, i KNOW it’s not me!!

I like your idea of joint appts at the audiologist. I’m thinking that will ultimately be my approach. Our daughter will say something to him because she hinted strongly already last summer when they were visiting. We had to raise our voices over the television and I was getting a headache! Our key is making him think it’s his idea!

I really hope it’s similar to your husband’s experience and that he acquiesces and considers hearing aids. What I find amusing is a friend of his recently started using them. But his friend often doesn’t wear them in the house and his wife gets upset. So here’s my husband, on the way home from a visit, saying “he should really wear those all the time! It’s crazy to have ‘em and not wear ‘em if they’re needed.” Huh… 😂