Well what a weird Saturday morning that was. I noticed some blocked ear behaviour in my right around midweek, which by Friday was pretty severe. I’ve had earwax removed a couple of times before, so booked myself into Harborne Specsavers yesterday. Did I know they could do a free NHS hearing test? Did I want one? Well of course I’ve reached that part of life when any kind of testing is a tasty offer. Of course I would.

We’ll pass over the earwax removal, with objects that belonged in a David Cronenberg movie coming out of my ears. But it absolutely did the trick and agreed that having it done annually was probably for the best. The hearing test was very thorough – sat in an isolation booth and pressing a buzzer when a variety of very faint tones came out of left and right, with a conductive part.

We looked at the charts on the guy’s laptop and it starts well on the left and trails away as it goes across, more marked on the right than left. It appearsI have classic age-related hearing loss in the treble with a touch of mid loss in the right as well. » Continue Reading.