What Did You Say?

When we lived at Fort Hood, I knew that I didn’t hear as well as I used to.  Bill kept encouraging me to get my hearing checked.  Finally, a good friend told me that she would watch Amy and Lee if I went for a hearing test.  So I finally psyched myself up and made an appointment.  After being in the booth and pushing the button when I heard a sound, the doctor told me that I was “inattentive.”  I think that part of his reason for saying that was because I was in my early 30s, and he didn’t think one so young would have a hearing loss.  My husband told me to go back, that the Army’s philosophy was that if a person was really sick or really had a problem, he or she would go back again.  I was just too embarrassed to return.

I finally did get the courage to go for another hearing test when we were stationed in Frankfurt, Germany.  I think it was in 1981.  The Army corpsman tested me on a machine while I just sat there wearing headphones.  The doctor thought that the machine wasn’t working correctly and asked the corpsman to run the test again.  She finally put me a booth to test my hearing.  When I got out of the booth, she told me that I had a mild hearing loss.  I broke down and cried.  Finally, someone believed me!  She recommended that I get a hearing aid for my right ear, the one with the most hearing loss.  Read THIS ENTRY that I wrote in June 2005 to find out my reaction.

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And we know that in all things God works
for the good of those who love him,
who have been called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28