Comments | mad_jaks: It's not two tins and a piece of string nana

mad_jaks

It's not two tins and a piece of string nana

Nov 20, 2010 19:26

(Subject line courtesy of my daughter ( Read more... )

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padawanpooh November 20 2010, 19:43:04 UTC

Some people with healthcare issues are SO GOOD at bluffing in these situations! Doctors etc should be able to pick up on it :-)

mad_jaks November 20 2010, 20:13:44 UTC

It's not like the questions are ever really any different - after the first 40 or 50 times you get used to them.

You'd think they would *nods*

drunken_hedghog November 20 2010, 19:43:16 UTC

Heh, yeah I've been known to do that. It's gotten me into trouble more than once. Let me guess, your mum maintains that there's nothing wrong with her hearing?

I see your daughter has inherited your wit ^_~

mad_jaks November 20 2010, 20:02:26 UTC

Oh no, my mum's deaf. Her hearing was affected when she caught the measles aged three. And associated problems, plus a major infection in her early 20s, left her with no hearing at all in her left ear (and no bottem teeth).

I could hear my daughter's eyeroll when she said it, even though she was standing behind me.

Poorly child and I are having a Merlin-in, so have Giles.

drunken_hedghog November 20 2010, 20:19:58 UTC

Okay, I have to ask then - if she knows she's deaf, why does she keep trying to use the phone? Can the council not provide her with a text-talk phone?

Enjoy Merlin, I know I'm enjoying Giles!

ETA - sorry, am a dipstick who commented when she should have replied.

mad_jaks November 20 2010, 20:24:57 UTC

Well she used to be able to manage it - using the T button on her hearing aid plus a volume control on the phone. She can just about manage a conversation as long as it's kept really simple and TO THE POINT (something my sister can't actually manage...)

She's past the point where new tech would be helpful - she just can't cope with it; she already has trouble with the tv remote.

rustydog November 22 2010, 02:49:00 UTC

in less than the time it takes to say hello 5 or 6 times - to the hell that is her repeating: "It's no good, I can't hear you." "Pardon?" "This phone's very quiet."

This sounds exactly like the conversations my parents try to have with my paternal grandmother on the phone. It will be five minutes of shouting and lack of comprehension, and then after she gets off the phone, she'll tell my aunt (who visits her every day) that she forgot to take her hearing aid out. (Apparently that interferes with the volume of the phone. She NEVER remembers.)