An elderly gentleman of 85 feared his wife was
getting hard of hearing. So one day he called her
doctor to make an appointment to have her hearing
checked. The Doctor made an appointment for a hearing
test in two weeks, and meanwhile there's a simple
informal test the husband could do to give the doctor
some idea of the state of her problem.
'Here's what you do," said the doctor, "start out
about 40 feet away from her, and in a normal
conversational speaking tone see if she hears you. If
not, go to 30 feet, then 20 feet, and so on until you
get a response."
That evening, the wife is in the kitchen cooking
dinner, and he's in the living room. He says to
himself, "I'm about 40 feet away, let's see what
happens."
Then in a normal tone he asks, 'Honey, what's for
supper?" No response.
So the husband moved to the other end of the room,
about 30 feet from his wife and repeats, "Honey,
what's for supper?" Still no response.
Next he moves into the dining room where he is about
20 feet from his wife and asks, "Honey, what's for
supper?" Again he gets no response so he walks up to
the kitchen door, only 10 feet away. "Honey, what's
for supper?"
Again there is no response, so he walks right up
behind her. "Honey, what's for supper?"
Perhaps the wife has cancer of her larynx and needs to WORK through her pain and learn to speak up a bit louder in order to attend to the needs of her husband....don't you think?
