hi all.
a small sad tale, here in my senior home.
I rode up the elevator with about four people. I stopped at my 4th floor and as the elevator door was opening, the lady to my immediate right asked me a question, a question that only would take one sentence to answer.
The door was open and getting ready to close back, so as i walked out, I shouted out the one sentence answer.
As the door slowly closed, I overhead this lady tell her friend next to her, and maybe also just telling it to the "air", she said wistfully and depressingly, "oh what is the world coming to these days? It is getting ever the more where when I ask someone a question, they completely IGNORE me and say nothing at all"!
the door was now shut, i could not get back with her.
But I yelled out the answer to her!
Ah yes, she is now DEAF!
Again; a reminder here at my senior home, that most of the people just cannot hear very well anymore and a "good" hearing aid can cost now over $5,000 ! Then many people get very dizzy from this thing sticking in their ears; they just cannot wear a hearing aid.
Someone wrote that if he had to choose between blindness and deafness, he would choose to be blind as deafness is "social isolation"!
So here at my Home, people come up to me and someone and Butt right in, why we are not talking so why not begin a conversation!
deafness.
unlike a red tipped cane, that red tip is for us to see, a signal that he is blind, deaf people do not wear a name tag saying "I AM DEAF"!
I was once in a cafeteria and i was talking very very loudly to a man sitting at the close by other table. Another lady came over and told me that I was talking too loud. I then introduced her to my conversation-man.
"I am Suzy" she says brightly.
He says, "please talk very loud, I am deaf"!
I say, "just open your mouth and let it roar, now you know why i was talking so loudly, to bother you, I did not want him to feel isolated"!!
