“So far so perfect. It’s taken me less than 24 hours to realise that the device you recommended and fitted me with will make a significant positive difference every day. My wife and daughter still haven’t noticed I’m wearing the device and I felt empowered in all my meetings yesterday and today by simply being able to hear more clearly.
Matthew, thank you for all your work and good recommendations and especially for patiently explaining everything to me. I obviously would rather not need a hearing aid, but your high degree of professionalism and kindness made an unpleasant situation better. You are world class at your work and I’m so glad my GP referred me to you.”
Thank you. We had a lovely time, much improved by my mother being able to hear. The hearing aids are a real success. She is back in the centre of things again. The extended family is very impressed. In fact, I have been giving your details to several people!
Matthew, you were terribly kind to her, and she is very happy and has rejuvenated since she has been able to join in the conversation again.
With best wishes, Josephine
Hearing loss for anyone can be hard to cope with but if you are conductor of music, it can be career threatening. A couple of years ago, I acquired a hearing aid on the NHS which I was reasonably happy with but in the past year I have gone for a new ‘in-ear’ hearing aid from the North London Hearing clinic in Golders Green. This has transformed my life and has restored my hearing to how it was when I was young man.
Not only is this brilliant in rehearsals and concerts but it makes a massive difference in recording sessions, where I can wear headphones as normal, without having to take my hearing aid in and out. Regrets?….. the only one is that I didn’t do it 5 years earlier. It is not cheap but it improves your quality of life beyond words.
I would just like to say a really big thank you to Ms Jaspreet Bahra who has seen me a number of times in the last few months. Not only has she acted with impeccable professionalism but she has genuinely helped me to understand what is going on in my ears and taken an enormous amount of extra trouble with me- definitely above and beyond! Very best wishes, Ms Woolf-Hoyle
I remember it was a colleague at London Weekend Television who said to me, when I could no longer cope adequately with the multi sound sources during a live production, “You need hearing aids. Good ones too”. And she was right.
I started with one aid from the NHS but it wasn’t the revelation I hoped it would be; Over the years I’ve done most of the major brands. I’ve even explored the High Street chains. But I have come to the conclusion that you need a specialist (like a doctor or a surgeon) who knows your case history and who has an open mind about the product you need – and not just a tie-up with a particular supplier and that is when I found Harley Street Hearing.
I recently went for the personal recommendation of Paul Checkley, my specialist at Harley Street Hearing in London. He unreservedly recommended – for my particular loss – a Phonak Audeo. During my ‘trial’ period, I was amazed by the ‘Zoom’ setting. I sat at one end of our dining table and it literally ‘zoomed’ into the guest at the other end (by-passing all the peripheral chatter in between) and brought her voice clearly into both aids. I would never have dreamed of hearing so well in this situation before..
Audeo actually, it means, “I dare” in Latin. And I do – dare to invest, dare to believe, dare to forget nostalgia and hope for a whole new future; a future in which first-time hearing becomes the expectation rather than the exception.
I have not heard properly in my left ear since I was a little girl and I was conscious of wearing a hearing aid when I was younger and so as a result of attention from other kids in class I stopped wearing it.
When Paul Checkley from Harley Street Hearing first fitted my new, tiny, Lyric I could not believe how clearly I could hear. I instantly knew for the first time in years, where sound was coming from and I could actually hear when people were speaking to me from a distance.
I can now hear much better in a crowded room and the device is so discreet no one knows I’m wearing it. I can dance freely wearing it, quite simply, it has changed my life”.
To see Karen’s full story see a recent article in the Daily Mirror https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/karen-hardy-doctors-said-my-hearing-1494754
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