I’ve temporarily (hopefully) lost one of my new hearing aids. My left ear was itching and so I took out my hearing aid, and twisted the cotton off of a cotton swab so that I could scratch the itch with the stick end of the swab. But then, the rest becomes fuzzy. I don’t recall getting up from my chair. I didn’t see the hearing aid on the table next to my easy chair (but the cotton swab is there). I had the burgundy “throw” on top of me.
I then thought that maybe I had laid the hearing aid down on the throw, but had moved and it had rolled off into the creases of the chair or onto the floor. I stood up and shook the burgundy throw, and nothing. I took the colorful, fall themed table top that I use for the seat of my easy chair and shook it, nothing. Hmm. Eventually, I checked the creases of the chair, and even found that there was a removable cushion. I looked under the cushion, nothing. I’ve lifted the chair from the front, from the back, a couple of times, and have even turned the chair on it’s right side and still nothing… other than I see the chair is broken, severely. There were two wooden braces that go across the bottom of the chair, and one of them had busted near one edge. There was a bent metal wingnut that had deformed that apparently had held that end of this brace. I’m guessing that the foot rest, which hasn’t worked for quite a while (it is semi-extended out so that I can rest my legs on it) stopped working about the time that the wooden brace broke.
Now that I see how badly the chair is damaged, I may just get another. I’ve seen one like it, but not as good a quality (not La-Z-Boy) for about $400. *I’ve just gone online and found a nice looking recliner (modern style) at Lowe’s. **Still trying to figure out exactly what “no motion recliner” means. I’ve read and explanation which didn’t clear things up, and I see a recliner labeled as “no motion” but the back lays aback up to 135 degrees. It doesn’t reference being able to swivel the chair either? I don’t know, but the Lowe’s chair is only $290 – $302.
Gray Faux Leather Standard (No Motion) Recliner for only $239. ***Already read a couple of reviews which tell me not to buy this chair because it is poorly made and breaks in 6 months or so.
Oh, my, my!
So after I inspected the chair thoroughly, I thought, “Maybe the hearing aid had bounced away from the chair and not into or under it. So I looked around, and still no hearing aid. *I still was thinking that it must have got caught between one of the chair’s creases and had just not shaken loose. And then just one more thought, “What if I left the other hearing aid in my car.” But that would mean that I must have imagined my ear itching, and that I had taken that hearing aid out of my ear before scratching the itch with the cotton swab stick. **Wouldn’t that last alternative be much more worrisome that a hiding item in my easy chair? Yes, it would!
I put my shorts on, with the suspenders, and then put my vibrant pinkish shirt on over the suspenders. Normally, I don’t put the shirt on over the suspenders because I have to remove the shirt before dropping the suspenders to pull my pants/shorts down. I walked out to my car, and noted that some of the ground was wet and it appeared that there had been some rain overnight. I walked around the car to see if the tires appeared to be inflated, and then walked back around to the driver’s side door and opened it. As I stuck my head inside, yes, there it was. The other hearing aid was in a little slot near the gear stick (not a stick drive, but automatic). Oh, my! I probably took out one hearing aid as I went in to shop either in Pate’s Farm Market or a little later in the Walmart across town.
But the worrisome part of this is that I had imagined that I had a hearing aid in my ear. The ear had itched, and I had removed the hearing aid before scratching the ear. The part that I know I didn’t imagine was that I had twisted one end off of a cotton swab so that I could use the stick part of it to scratch the ear better. *Well, I don’t see the swab with the twisted off end, but I could have easily thrown it away. But, if I didn’t then I guess I imagined that as well. Oh, boy.
“Oh, hell yeah.” I was just looking for the cotton swab, and as I was moving stuff on the table, I heard something drop to the floor. I look and my daily drug container had fallen off and I see tablets on the floor. I hope the morning & evening tablets didn’t mix. *They didn’t. Only one tray top popped open.
I bought some more raw peanuts at Pate’s yesterday. I’ve bought several batches this season and they have all been good. I bought some fresh okra. The okra are getting smaller and tougher looking, but they fried up nicely yesterday. I happened to look for the Noosa Yogurt in Walmart yesterday and found it. I bought one of the slightly larger containers, which is probably about 9 oz. Their small container is 4.5 oz. I bought their Raspberry Yogurt and it was good too. They may not include fresh fruit as I had thought with the blueberry, but it may just be a fruit flavored jam in the bottom. But, their yogurt is smooth, thick and nicely tart. I paid $1.98 for the larger container, but only $1 for the smaller containers (at Food Lion), but it looks like Food Lion is trying to get rid of this yogurt. If their prices are not too expensive, the Noosa Yogurt is worth buying compared to the textures and quality of other yogurts.
[NOTE 10/03/24]: So a day or so ago, I realized that one of my hearing aids had stopped working. I first thought that it had just run out of energy and needed to be recharged, so I put that hearing aid back in the charger. Later I took the hearing aid out of the charger and put it in my ear. Normally the aid will beep and then I will hear a slight hiss as it starts to amplify the outside noise. But, no. It was still dead. At some point I look back and see that the charging plug has been pulled out of the wall outlet, so I plug it back in. Oh, and I switched the charging bowl in which I put the hearing aid, in case it was the charger and not the hearing aid. I also changed the cabling, which I had switched around using the hearing aid charging cable in my car and using the Chromebook charging cable for the phone & hearing aid in my apartment. Nope. I’m going to have to contact Audion and see what to do about fixing it myself, or getting them to send me another one. I did take out some kind of insurance so this shouldn’t be a problem. [end NOTE]
Bill Gibson, II 