Posted on 10/26/2022 1:12:11 PM PDT by Red Badger
What was that?
Due to a childhood disease (now fixed by tubes) I don’t have the little bones in my left ear, and, an ear canal that you can drive a truck through (I had to start charging for parking). A wonderful doctor found a solution for me, and, I got about 70% of my hearing saved. Lasted until my mid-50s.
Just before I retired, I had a post for a bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) installed in my skull (titanium so it doesn’t set off metal detectors). No way a OTC hearing aid was gonna work for me, but, this is next to perfect. And it’s listed as a prosthetic, not, a hearing-aide, so, insurance covers it.
First time since I was a small child I can hear real stereo!
Last time we were at Sam’s, there was a free earing test booth.
Do these count?
1. Bringing a sledge hammer down on a full roll of caps when I was about 11
2. A bicycle tire exploding at the service station when I was about 12
3. Rifles with no hearing protection
4. Wood shop and metal shop with no hearing protection
5. Working in power plants with no hearing protection
6. Attending big car races (e.g., CanAm and TransAm series) with no hearing protection.
7. Fireworks with no hearing protection
8. Big name rock concerts, front row in front of two-story tall speakers, with no hearing protection
9. Hours behind a lawn mower without a muffler
10. And, and, and, and...
When my ears rang temporarily after really loud noises as a kid, I just thought it was normal. Nobody ever told me it would become permanent. I'm surprised my ears don't bleed.
10. Getting the jab.
Developed tinnitus 3 days later.
So sorry to hear that! Mine took years to develop. It’s not pleasant.
LOL. OMGosh, my husband can’t hear a darned thing I say LOL!
My wife has a very weak voice. Even though I passed a recent hearing test, when we’re in public, I just can’t differentiate her whispers from the background.
If she talks louder she thinks she’s yelling when in reality it’s still less than normal decibel level.
SURELY you expected THAT one . . . DINcha' ?
Hahahahaha I always loved the “Cone Of Silence” and the various offshoots!
Just got new HA...didn’t now how deaf I was...These things rock...Bluetooth and iphone app. $600 out of Pocket...Insurance picked up $1000
40 YEARS with diesel engines in both ears. HUH?
Well, at least it has a happy ending.
A sign: You make sense of Biden or Fetterman... :-)
I’m glad to see that hearing aids will be sold over-the-counter. It’s about time. I’ll wait a year or so to really look into them since I suspect the price will drop dramatically in a 10 to 12 months.
Being on the plus side of 60, a lot of conversations in our house-hold have a lot of “Huh?” and “What did you say?” and “Say that again?”. (That’s in addition to the “do you know what I did with so-and-so”, and “where did I put my coffee cup. It was in my hand a moment ago”.)
Hahahahahahaha!
My wife has sent me to the doctor for several hearing tests because I am constantly saying “What was that, sweetie?”
Then she thought I might have old-husband “selective hearing.
I insist that I do listen to everything she says, because I think she is going to quiz me.
We have a running inside joke. In the movie “American Beauty”, Annette Benning plays the chatty wife of Kevin Spacey’s character who is a “stay at home dad” while she works.
Every day she comes home and talks non-stop about her real estate job, what she saw, who she dealt with, etc. and while doing other stuff, he would mumble things like “Uh huh”, “Sure”, and “Okay”.
After a while, she suspected he wasn’t listening to her stream of consciousness dump on him, so the conversation went like this:
“So, today, I met with Mr. Smith. We went to the house. We were looking at the floors and the walls. When we went to the attic, we saw the wiring had problems, which he didn’t like. The plumbing was okay. But something had to be done about the wiring. Then we went in the backyard and came back in. The windows were dirty. You would think people would follow my advice, but they just don’t. I’ll have to clean those before the next visit. I wonder if she has windex there? I might have to buy some. We should have funds at the office for that, but we never do. And the floor was dirty. I don’t know how best to clean it. I suppose...”
Then she looked up and saw Kevin Spacey was fixated on some minute thing and didn’t appear to be listening. She said “Have you heard anything I just said?” He said he was listening, so she continued:
“...so, the Jones are coming over later, and I have to get the house ready for them. They are always late. I don’t know what they want, but they ask a lot of questions. I sometimes think I should write those things down but I never do. I never have paper at hand. Or a pencil. Maybe I should get some at the office. Anyway, the bathroom at the house was filthy, and there is a crack in the toilet...”
Looking at him, again he seems to be completely ignoring her, so she continues:
“...we have so many houses to show. John never wants to do his fair share. He is always involved in something else. Oh yes. I have to pick up some staples. Maybe I’ll do that tomorrow. But the route over to that other house I am showing goes past Maple Street. Maple Street needs to be fixed. It is very bumpy. Well, I got to the house and there was nobody there. I looked in the fridge, then I went into the bathroom and cut off my head with dental floss...”
Still looking at his magazine, Kevin Spacey just mumbled “Uh huh.”
So now, when my wife is saying something and thinks I am not listening, she ends with “...And then I cut off my head with dental floss.”
And waits for me to respond...:)
May I ask you what kind you have?
I received mine from Amazon, they weren’t real expensive, but they’re better than nothing.
I don’t know if I would do well with any kind of hearing assist. I kind of like the chorus of crickets....
Lol
By your description, it sounds like she may well have hearing loss also and not know it. Often those people will whisper mumble for fear of yelling or yell because they dont know they are being unnecessarily loud. They just dont really know to what their default volume is set.
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