A Life-Changing Moment in Hearing

Courtesy HearCare & Associates

Steve Lukather, renowned guitarist and front man with the group Toto, has been playing rock-and-roll since he was 9 years old. It took another professional musician to persuade him to do something about his hearing loss. Kenneth and Jill Sheppard, owners of HearCare and Associates in Sherman and Gainesville, share Lukather’s story with you, and invite you to hear the music again.

“I was on a stage with Carlos Santana and Jeff Beck; this was the one time that I got the ring that never went away,” says Lukather. “So, I hadn’t heard silence since 1986.”

“I found myself saying, ‘what?’ all the time. How many times do you go, ‘Yeah!’ and laugh, going: ‘I couldn’t hear a word they said?’ I did that for a lot of years until I ran into my friend, Brad Whitford, from Aerosmith, and he was talking, and I kept asking, ‘What?’ He says, ‘Bro, you need one of these, man.’ And he whipped out his little device and I didn’t even know he was wearing it! We kind of cracked up, saying yep, we knew this day would come.”

Lukather laughs and says, “We had hoped by the time we needed one that it would be like this. That you wouldn’t need to be wearing two, like, tires on the side of your head.”

“They’re not your daddy’s or your grandpa’s hearing aids, man. No. No. No. The Widex Moment hearing aids have changed my life. When I went down and I had them put in, I almost had tears in my eyes. Cuz I haven’t been able to hear that frequency for a long time. The quality is incredible,” says Lukather.

“There’s no shame in admitting that as you get older, you get a little weaker. Even if you’re not a musician, it happens.”

It’s estimated that about 40 million adults ages 20 to 69 in the United States have noise-induced hearing loss. Approximately one in three people in the U.S. between the ages of 65 to 74 have hearing loss. There is a solution!

Kenneth and Jill Sheppard invite you to call 903-868-2650 for an appointment to have your hearing checked. It’s fast, easy, and some say, even fun.