I had a hearing test this morning.
I was fed-up of not being able to understand what my children say. I was also having to increase the volume on the television. I wanted a test to prove it was them not me.
I was told the test would take about one hour and turned up expecting a very high-tech digital-age test. The first thing the man did was hold a tuning fork to my forehead. Then he went out in the corridor and made sounds.
Finally I had to put on some headphones and hold up my finger each time I heard a noise.
After this extensive test, I am happy to say that my hearing is fine. So I can continue to grumble at my children - sons - for muttering. So that's all right.
8 comments:
Yes, it's all their fault.
This reminds me of school, the headphones and tapping on the table to say you could hear something. It was always followed by the colour blindness test.
I think I have what is called "selective hearing" because when Noah was here and I wanted to listen to something on the telly, I was able to tune him and his fire truck siren out. At least I "hope" it's selective hearing. I find I'm turning up the volume a lot lately. Huh?
I have this thing: I'm sure it's not "hearing" so much as "comprehension" where people gabble at me: all I hear is yak-yak-yakker-yak... it can take a good ten seconds of mulling to boil this down to anything like comprehensible English?... does that ring any bells?
Well I'm glad you DON'T need a hearing aid but am faintly disappointed I'm now unable to recommend that one that comes in the stalk of your glasses? ... know what I mean? Maybe somebody will read this who really is deaf and get a brainwave!
I had a hearing test a few years ago. The person who did the test with the headphones was English, but he just recorded the results and passed them onto someone else. That "someone else" had the broadest African accent I've ever heard, and although I could tell he was talking English, I just could not understand what he was saying. I knew that he was delivering the results of my test, but I couldn't work out what they were. It wasn't a hearing issue per se, just an accent thing. So we had the quite comical scene of my saying "Sorry, are you saying that I do have a hearing problem, or not ?", and him repeating the answer, again and again. Finally, after what must have been a dozen attempts, I established that I do have a hearing problem, and that it's more pronounced with sounds at a higher pitch. Then the only thing I understood first time: I'd have a bigger problem hearing women, and that I was "very lucky". It's a good job he wasn't a woman, or we'd still be there now...
Good news. I am having the same trouble but I'm sure my hearing is fine too. Mumblers all. Have you noticed in movies now the sound track is so loud you can't hear what anyone is saying? Mutter, mutter.
The young folks all mumble. Nothing on the telly is worth hearing. So don't worry about it. You are lucky that the tests came out in your favor. Not all of us are so charmed. To wit:
http://www.nobodyasked.com/2007/02/11/cawing-of-crows/
If the last part of that address cut off, it is /cawing-of-crows/
So glad for you, Liz.
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