hearing test

Yesterday I went for a hearing test for a research study at Brandeis. (I have some hearing loss, mostly in my right ear which is pretty close to useless.) I guess they are doing some kind of research into memory and cognition as related to hearing loss, and they have a pool of elderly volunteers with age-related hearing loss, but they needed a control group of younger people with hearing loss. I had been playing phone and email tag with the lady running the study for a couple of months, mainly due to me being terrible at returning messages (I suck!) so when I finally did call her back she was embarrassingly grateful. I guess they have been having a lot of trouble finding young people with hearing loss, not surprisingly.

Anyway, since I had not had a hearing test in many years, she asked me to come in and get it tested to see whether I qualified for their study. ( Read more... )

Alas, she emailed me this morning that I don't qualify for the study. My hearing loss is actually too severe for their purposes. Oh well, so much for my $150. It was still kind of fun, and interesting because I had been wondering what my hearing is like now, and now I know! :)

p.s. When the hearing test man said "pool-boy" I flashed on cheesy porn and had to refrain from giggling. I am easily amused.