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Charla Shamhart's avatar

3 years ago my husband came running in to wake me. “A bobcat has just killed the last of the adult chickens.” I jumped up, grabbed a pistol and ran to the chicken yard forgetting the hearing protection that was hanging just above the food processor.

4 shots into the bobcat was all it took to lose most of my hearing that was already not the best.

Even VERY EXPENSIVE hearing aids are TERRIBLE compared to even compromised natural hearing.

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Thom's avatar

Yeah, I have about 90% loss in one ear and 90% function in the other. "Hon, I heard you speak, but I don't know what you said." Or "I hear you calling, but I don't know where you are."

I have a nice set of hearing aids, but they are not as good as original equipment.

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Charla Shamhart's avatar

That’s exactly what I tell my husband. “I can hear you, I just can’t decipher what you said. Let me turn the hearing aids up.” Sometimes I still can’t figure it out.

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