In the early 1980s, while my parents were visiting a beautiful island in the Caribbean (my mother’s hometown), my grandmother came to stay with me, my younger sister, and brother. I slept on the sofa bed in the living room and my grandmother slept in my bed. We all watched television for a while (with the volume full blast, since built-in caption decoders didn’t exist), and called it a night around 11:00 pm.The next morning, a pile of debris appeared on the carpet beneath the table. As I bent down to clean the mess, I noticed the color was a familiar beige. Frantic, I ran to the living room and checked the end table where I placed my hearing aids the night before. No hearing aids. I wordlessly screamed at the top of my lungs. How could this happen? My “ears” were in pieces, I couldn’t hear, and my parents were out of the country!
My grandmother, sister, and brother rushed to see why I was upset. My sister confessed to bending the rules, bringing the dog inside the house without telling anyone. This was a very expensive way to learn that dogs are attracted to ear wax (eww!).
Sheesh, mom and dad, the dog ate my hearing aids. He really did!
Anyone out there ever lose a hearing aid in a wacky way?
Penquin Said:
on August 23, 2007 at 3:19 am
Hey, I have a senegal parrot, adorable little baby. He sits on my shoulders and sticks his beak in my ear (the one without the hearing aid) and he starts eating out the wax…..yuck and tickling sensation. In anycase, whenever I’m on the phone, the bird gets peed off at me and when i get off the phone, he’s been known to grab my hearing aid and fling it across the room….dam bird.
Dave Gibb Said:
on August 23, 2007 at 7:37 am
I can relate to this. Waaayyy back before I got my Cochlear Implant I had two new Oticon E380 P Hearing aids. About the most powerful available in those days.. and very expensive here in New Zealand. I picked them up from the Audies and that night put them on my bedside table when I went to bed. Next morning… no HA but a pile of plastic and electronic bit had magically appeared in my Miniature Pinschers bed. My insurance company was NOT amused!
Hoh Said:
on August 24, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Penguin –
My family loves birds, and we always had one growing up. I still remember the first (and last)time a bird yanked my hearing aid out and pierced the tube!
Dave –
I feel ya. Heart-sinking, wasn’t it?
Cindy
Pearl of the Dark Age Said:
on August 25, 2007 at 4:31 am
It’s one of the few things that are guaranteed to make me cry: losing my hearing aids. I dropped mine in a gutter once on accident. That was bad… >.>
charcoalsilhouette Said:
on March 18, 2008 at 2:38 am
Yah, haven’t lost my aids yet, and I just celebrated my one-year hearing aid anniversary. Ok, except for the small puncture wound to one mold, and the non-working second mold-tube-aid connection. So they’re not in the best of shape, but still, they’re both intact and alive. I haven’t lost them, except for occaisionally leaving them in class or in my pocket. Once in a while one of them will get left in my back pack (“Yes mom, I wore my hearing aids today!”) or at a friend’s house (I’m sorry, you just can’t straighten your hair with little meltable things on your ears!). Anyway, I have a pretty good track record, but this is one of the things that will definitely make me cry. Or losing my microphone, which I have done on many occaisions, once just to discover that it was in my pocket.