What would you do if...

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7. That's kind of my life

My husband is deafer than he thinks he is and won't wear his hearing aids. I have a very low voice and I confess I do mumble (my throat was paralyzed by polio when I was a kid). It's a little like living alone sometimes; sometimes it's pretty funny when he thinks I said one thing and then I do something he was not expecting.

OTOH It can lead to pretty nasty fights, all based on some stupid (literal) misunderstanding.

But this stuff really does happen when you get old and deaf--I'm a little deaf, too.

It's surprising to me that hearing is such a vital sense, sometimes more important than sight, even.