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A man was telling his neighbor, 'I just bought a new hearing aid. It cost me four thousand dollars, but it's state of the art.. It's perfect.'
'Really,' answered the neighbor .. 'What kind is it?'.."Twelve thirty.."





I'm not much of a sentimental person. The kind of guy who threw the cooked cat off the balcony while venting out the smoke from a fire kinda a macho idiot.

But now as the guy who has 2 brand new 2600 hearing aids (I got the mid line models), and still leans forwards, cups his hands and says sorry about 20 times a day...that just made me cry. I don't freaking know why. And more and more I realize that stuff I say sometimes is funny only to me.

They tell me that my total word comprehension isn't coming back. In fact the only time I found the hearing thing funny, I was a bit choked up in the Audioligists office and she had a pad of paper they use to show parents of deaf kids where certain parts of the alphabet fall on the scale. Way off the end of my hearing are o, f, k and in some cases c. I was shown this chart with pictures of planes and ducks and stuff, and she showed me that those letters, all around 6000 were basically gone, and it's not possible to really bring them back with amplification. I dabbed my eyes and in typical John fashion said "and I thought that guy kept saying u-o u-o
( _u_ _ o _ _) She said something about being able to joke when it wasn't really funny. A defense mechanism I guess.

John Conley
Musica est vita