Do You Hear What I Hear?
If your mother hasn’t been answering your telephone calls, maybe she can’t hear the phone. Have friends complained that she doesn’t come to the door when they ring the doorbell? The only way you can know for sure if people around you are hearing what you hear is to question them if they don’t respond like you. If you hear a sound in the kitchen and run to see who is there, you might ask your friend who is visiting with you if he too heard the sound. The only way to know what other hear is to ask them. But, first you must tell them what you heard or else your question might fall on deaf ears.
Discovering that someone around you is going deaf might be startlingly frightening. The loss of one of our senses deprives us of much of what makes life enjoyable. If you ask your loved one if they hear what you hear and the answer is hear what, you might have to take your loved one to see an audiologist. Getting one’s hearing tested is painless and will let you know once and for all if your television set is muted or if your hearing has developed a glitch in the mechanism.
There are signs of deafness or of people who might have break ups in their sound receptor. Not being scared by someone stealing behind them and grabbing their waist is a sign that they are covering up for not hearing footsteps. Some elderly people think it is a sign of age and refuse to deal with it. By ignoring the problem, they hope it will go away. Unfortunately, it won’t go away. Hearing is a precious sense and to not hear slight sounds of birds chirping or of bees humming might be sad. But, not to hear your radio telling you the morning news might be sadder yet.