Dorothy is looking forward to a Christmas miracle, the miracle of talking with family members coming to her Escondido home on Christmas Day after years of being left out of the family conversation because of hearing loss. “It’s going to be a new experience for mom,” Dorothy’s daughter Donna said. It will also be a new experience for some of the younger members of the family who haven’t experienced Dorothy in her full element. “I’ve always been a social person,” Dorothy said, which was greatly inhibited by her hearing loss. She’s been shut out of conversations for the past 15 years as her hearing deteriorated and she was unable to afford quality hearing aids. “Every time we used to talk, she would have to ask what we just said,” Donna said. “We’d constantly have to repeat it. It tries your patience.” Instead of losing her patience altogether, ...