There is a private joke shared among us in the DH50490 household: we are hard of hearing people because we talk loudly. It runs in the family, this tendency to speak a few decibels louder than the laypersons.
I don't mean to denounce the Ismail family name and set you off running in the opposite direction when you see our clan, but it is not news that we are one loud bunch. Perhaps it was the volume of the TV I grew up with. Maybe I can blame it on the constant babel I had to battle with to be heard.
My days in INTEC as a frequent KTM commuter taught me how to tone down as friends reported back on overhearing inappropriate or mushy conversations I've had on the trains. I am now like a chameleon, ready to adapt to the decibels of my surrounding as is required of me. My voice comes in gradations: Softer among new acquaintances, soft among friends, loud with close/old friends, and comfortably loud with my next-of-kins.
All the same, here I am, a 20 year old female who is still hard of hearing. Maybe it IS because I talk loudly. It makes sense, complete sense when you think of the ear/headphone scenario. People speak louder when they can't hear well. People speak louder when they can't hear themselves. The private joke just may just be a fully acceptable hypothesis.
But could it be. . .
Could it be the possibility that I have accumulated years worth of earwax? Could it be that my earwax has been pushed back, way back, only to be compressed into an odd shape and a rubber-like consistency? Could it be that I am molding; my earwax blackening and thickening, becoming awfully sickening to the eyes that see?
Well, I did spend an ungodly RM190 for a two-hour visit (plus waiting time) to the ENT specialist this afternoon and came home with a few "rubber erasers", a throbbing ear from all the probing and picking, free from hard-of-hearing, and a broad smile. So what did you think it was?
On a side note, this is a bona fide advice from the ENT to both me and you: never ever ever ever ever x33 try to clean your ears with a cotton bud. The evil invention pushes earwax further into the ear canal. You don't want to be a victim of an ENT's probing, trust me. It hurts more than a swine flu screening test up your nose (which I will not elaborate further). Throw away those cotton buds, this is your license to run free and be wild.
Be a slob. Just be a slob. It's the best gift you can give to your ears.
― Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
3 years ago
4 comments:
yeah i had the nurse at the SCC cleaned mine out (which was free btw). she said that it was "a large chunk" and wanted to show it to me. i said no thank you =p
NJ I totally know what you mean! I just came back from an ENT specialist myself. Poking this long inflexible metal camera thing into my nose = RM150 -.-
i LOIKEEEEEEEEEE.
my dad did have this problem before.
i complained bout it to my aunt since he would not listen to me as if I'm a little girl. GRR.
Finally he went to check n cuci all kotoran in his ear just because he is getting married in less than a month.
HAHAHA.
ps: now he can hear a little to much whenever my brother and I talk behind his back. *sigh*
khirul: shite! if i knew SCC can buat free, I would have suffered another 2 months man! hahahaha. but then again, maybe not. too painful.
liyana r: hey sayang. hahahaa, what was wrong with your nose? you okay? girl, i havent got your Malaysian number yet. Please gmail me at njahmat@gmail.com!
doriyuckey: hahah. what can you possibly like about tahi telinga keras? hahaha. sakit gila, man. i swear i dont want to go through that torture again. hehe. tell me about it. my mom has bionic ears or something, she can always hear us mumbling and laughing behind her back. kelakar betul!
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