erika, so sorry for your loss.
Trudy, sorry for the illness and worries.
Steph, it might be that you need to get his attention before trying to communicate. I know that sometimes I have to get people to back up and repeat something if I wasn't paying attention when they started.
On hearing - years ago, the place I worked was having a United Way fundraising event. As part of it, they were doing hearing tests. One person yelled over the cubicle wall to another, asking if she was having her hearing tested. Her response? "huh?" (in the tone of someone who hadn't heard, if the context isn't clear).
I'm so sorry, erika.
Keeping your family in my thoughts, Trudy.
Just for a change, something nice.
In my family we call it being "caring weird." Many years ago, I said something, my mom said "what?", I made a crack about hearing impaired people and she replied "what are caring weird people?"
Yes, smonster, you met Betsy.
(It's nice to get the testimonials.)
erika - I'm so sorry for your loss.
And Trudy! OMG - I hope she turns out to be okay. So scary.
Can't wait to get the new power cord from my laptop. So frustrating to not be able to keep up with everything.
In my family we call it being "caring weird." Many years ago, I said something, my mom said "what?", I made a crack about hearing impaired people and she replied "what are caring weird people?"
Heh. That's another of my dad's habits - if he mishears, he'll repeat back what he thought he heard no matter how ridiculous. "We need to clean it better." "Volcano peanut butter?" as if there was a chance in hell that was what you had actually said.
Some of this stuff is probably hearing loss, microstrokes, and general old age. But mostly it's a longstanding habit of not paying attention combined with a disregard for mental editing.
I'll add my misheard funny to list. When we were in the hospital after having Shane, the nurse came in and said, "Do you know about Shaken Baby Syndrome?" I said, "Chicken Baby Syndrome? No, I haven't heard of that."
Shoot, last night K-Bug said something about bring your daughter to work day and both CJ and I heard something that included "bra spider". Looking back I don't get how I heard that, but both CJ and I heard it, so it wasn't just my ears playing tricks on me.
I apparently don't have a UTI (the result of my culture came back, and the NP said that there were bacteria in there, but not close to the kind of numbers you get with a UTI). She recommended I call my OB/GYN and see if it's some ladyparts problem.
Ugh, I can sympathize with feeling like something in your ladyparts has mysteriously gone awry. Several years ago I got into a cycle of UTI/yeast infection/UTI/yeast infection that eventually sort of petered out into feeling a little weird all the time but with nothing really medically wrong anymore. It was unpleasant. I hope you're able to get a diagnosis and treat it soon.
