Grandma has hearing aids in both ears. She can hear somewhat good; things like the telephone, conversations when you’re looking at her, etc. What she has a hard time with is someone knocking on the door and the doorbell.
We’ll be sitting and watching television when I hear the doorbell ring. I’ll get up and go let whoever in. They walk in and she will look at me and say, “How did you know they were here?” Same goes when they knock. “How did you know they were here?”
One day, we had a guy coming to lay out the forms for some concrete under our back awning. Gma was watching for him, because we were all working. My mom brought over some corn on the cob and rang the doorbell. Gma had been looking outside (another story, another time), and saw them, so she opened the door. Somehow the doorbell got stuck in the “ring” position and the doorbell was going off every little bit.
Andrea, my daughter, worked afternoon shift and was sleeping. She heard the doorbell ringing, got up and checked the front and back doors and since no one was there, went back in. Gma was getting off of the couch and going to the door, looking out. Then she thought she heard the stove buzzer going off and couldn’t find out how to stop it (my stove didn’t have a buzzer). Andrea said that this was going on for 20 minutes. So, she went outside and found that the doorbell had gotten stuck. She unstuck it, thank goodness! Gma would have worn herself out going back and forth. She’s still not convinced it was the doorbell. She never hears the dryer buzzer either…
I’d like to hear that ‘other story’. 🙂