Hearing Test

I had my hearing tested today. I have flaccid eardrums; the audiologist recommended seeing a physician to make sure nothing is wrong (she implied that sometimes there’s a cause, and sometimes people just are that way). Flaccid eardrums mean that it’s harder for sound to make my eardrums vibrate - the eardrum moves with the sound, rather than vibrating and passing the information along to the cochlea.

My hearing is “borderline normal” for all of the sounds of speech, which means I’m essentially just fine. I do have a sharp drop at about 6kHz - a 60dB loss there and a 70dB loss at 8kHz. Those numbers indicate “moderate to severe” hearing loss, but because no speech sounds are in that range, I’m fine. It does, however, explain why A can hear when the TV is on and I can’t.

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