LEND ME YOUR EARS. The blogpost-de-jour is about hearing. Most of us do not arrive at their later years with perfect hearing. There is a natural degradation that happens and all those years of exposure to noise don't help. Then there are those whose hearing deteriorates because of some familial disorder like otosclerosis where the tiny bones of the ear get all hardened and calcified and do not transmit sound well. They are shown on the diagram as the malleus, incus, and stapes, which are latin words for hammer, anvil and something else I don't remember. I know it is not stapler. If you don't pay attention in school when you are young, there is a good chance that you will not get a decent indoor, or outdoor for that matter, job and your income will be limited. Couple that with driving around town in your car with the 2000 Watt Stereo blasting at full volume or walking with your iPod turned up to "stun" and you won't even be able to hear the answer to that proverbial question "Do you want fires with that?" So much for the young people. What's with bands and orchestras at wedding playing so loudly that you can't talk at the table and it is painful to be in front of the band on the dance floor. The excuse is that the people like the energy and the vibration and the band is only responding to the demands of the audience. Next time...look at the band members. They are wearing custom molded earplugs. Are you?
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