Aging/Health/Mental Health

Hearing Aids Day #2

Death by 1000 cuts but 750 remain

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Got them. Wearing them. $4500. No insurance.

Do I really need them? that much?

Thirty-day trial to hear:

trousers rustling as I walk

footsteps crunching snow

sighs

Over my ear:

Hearing aids

Eyeglasses

COVID mask

“Careful removing your mask.”

Hearing aids sail to snow

silently

Do I want to hear

what I’ve missed?

people I don’t know saying stupid shit

Beethoven now

I hear what he couldn’t

Death by a thousand cuts

New C-Pap

dents face

Cataracts gone

colors brighter

New right knee

How long will it last?

New left knee pain

tentative titanium?

knee-queue calls