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Mary Louise Kelly is a co-host of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine. Previously, she spent a decade as national security correspondent for NPR News, and...
- What Were Your Earliest Indications Something Was Wrong with Your Hearing?
- Did You Worry About The Impact on Your Job?
- Did You Have Any Reservations About People Seeing Your Hearing Aids?
- What Difference Did Hearing Aids Make in Your Life?
- What’s Your Advice For People Who Are Struggling with Their Hearing?
I noticed everyone seemed to mumble all the time, and I started watching TV with the subtitles on more and more. I have hearing lossin both ears, and it is severe to profound at higher frequencies, so it’s harder for me to hear women than men. I also have largely lost the ability to distinguish between certain consonants. For example, did you just ...
Yes, because hearing loss presents some very special challenges in my job. I’m the one asking questions and then listening to the answers, and I need to hear what you’re telling me so that I can follow up. It has gotten better because the technology keeps getting better. The leap to hearing aids with Bluetooth has been totally life-changing. The st...
I was a little self-conscious at first. It’s not like wearing glasses. Everyone I know my age is constantly pushing reading glasses on or off their nose, and it’s just par for the course. But with hearing aids, there is a stigma. A lot of people who should be wearing them probably aren’t. But pretty quickly, I just was so grateful. Suddenly, I coul...
I will never forget walking out of the audiologist’s office wearing hearing aids and stopping in my tracks because there was this weird noise. I realized, oh, that’s my footsteps. I hadn’t heard that in years. I’m a runner and I was used to jumping in fright when people on bikes whizzed past me because I could never hear them coming. The first time...
It only takes an hour to go and get an audiologist work up. It's generally covered by health plans and then you know what you’re dealing with. You may not realize how much you’re missing or compensating in other ways. Hearing aids get better every year. There are different settings — one for loud restaurants, one for quiet rooms, one if you’re tryi...
Mary Louise Kelly (@marylouisekelly1) • Instagram photos and videos. 10K Followers, 618 Following, 865 Posts - Mary Louise Kelly (@marylouisekelly1) on Instagram: "Mom. Host NPR’s @npratc Author, most recently, of It.Goes.So.Fast".
May 8, 2023 · NPR's Mary Louise Kelly has reported from around the world. In her new book, she looks back on the choices she made as a reporter and a mother.
- Meghna Chakrabarti
May 1, 2023 · In her new memoir, All Things Considered co-host Mary Louise Kelly talks about the time she got a call from her son's school nurse while she was boarding a Black Hawk helicopter in Baghdad.
Apr 16, 2023 · Mary Louise Kelly shares what it's like to grow older in the public eye and her last year at home with her two sons.
