The speed of thought

So mom gets this thing in the mail a couple of weeks ago for free hearing screenings (checking) and she had been wanting to get her hearing checked by someone other than the twit Massey has as his audiologist..  And she wants to set it up and then asks me if I would like to have mine checked.. Moms hearing is way less than very good.. My hearing more than likely is not nearly as good as it once was, I can tell that.. For example, when someone calls on the house phone (land line as it were) mom has the volume turned up as high as it will go and if everything is perfect and the fans are off and volumes on the tv and computer are mute I can usually hear both sides of the conversation fairly clearly, but now not as much as I could a couple years ago.. Same as with the cell phones.. We were at the bank last week and mom was getting some money out of her account and had to straiten a situation out calling Freda on the cell.. I could tell it was her but couldn't make out the entire conversation, where two years ago I would have heard her side clearly..  I hated that I could hear the other side of the conversation but that's how it was.. Now I can kinda hear it, but not as well.. Depends on how tightly to the head the person is holding their phone.. I can't hear a pin drop but I used to could.. And I can still hear the high pitched squeaky shopping carts at all the stores.. Makes me want to carry a can of oil with me and stop the person and say I just gotta stop this shit NOW..  Your driving me INSANE.. That squeak is off the charts..  And yet finger nails on a chalk board have never bothered me.. Go figure right??  So tomorrow while the over all effect will be nil, mom won't be getting a hearing aide and I will see how deaf I am becoming, it could be seen as a waste of time but ...  Not really..

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