WHAT? EH?
I didn’t write those words. They were cut and pasted, probably from an American lamenting his or her or our or their hearing loss (Pick any pronoun and be stupid too)
One thing I remember from an audiologist I talked to was that if you tapped on your teeth and heard the tapping clearly you didn’t have inner-ear hearing problems.
In my case, weirdly enough, it was Donald Trump who had cut me off from the dental care that might have preserved my hearing.
When I wasn’t allowed follow-through from the dentists who extracted most of my teeth, my ear canals changed shape and cut off the air continuity to my eardrums. That’s still all that’s really wrong with my hearing. I wore hearing protectors in my construction career and at rock concerts and motorcycle racing.
And you gotta know: I am functionally, profoundly deaf, but I could clearly hear the tiniest tapping against any of my 17 remaining teeth. (Sorry to be so blunt.)
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Musicians wear headsets so they can hear what they’re playing. These headsets don’t involve invisibly tiny and expensive batteries or crappy amplification algorithms. They’re just hearing amplifiers that play in your ears. Like what hearing aids are supposed to do.
Why be a victim of American values for the old and infirm?
If I still lived in the U.S, I’d contact some friends in the rock-and-roll world and get set up to hear again. It ain’t rocket science.
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I have nothing more to say. I’ve surrounded the subject for you readers, but I don’t have the creds to go any deeper.
FRED
