[Granville-Hough] 97 today

[Sean Buckley]

I remember Granville had a hard time making out Suzi's voice over the
phone, but was a bit better in person. Sharp as a rack. Wish I could have
stayed longer last time I visited him, but I was only in town for work and
had to leave after dinner.

I've never heard the uncompensated hearing loss factoid before.

At least your resistance to a hearing aid is more reasonable than my
father's denial of his degrading vision. For a number of years he insisted
his vision was still too young to need glasses, but had a habit of wearing
multiple pairs of over the counter reading glasses at the same time,
stacked on top of each other like binoculars.

He eventually gave in and went to the optometrist.


On Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 1:41 PM Trustees for Granville W. Hough <
gwhough-trust at oakapple.net> wrote:

>
> My father Granville Hough would have been 97 today, undoubtedly a record
> among his male ancestors.
>
> I coincidentally observed the occasion by ordering my first hearing aid
> yesterday.    I had resisted because of all my father's troubles keeping
> his
> adjusted.    All along we thought that his loss of hearing was due to
> his Army Artillery years, but I have been on almost the same trajectory
> without
> any military service or rock band experience.     The audiologist explained
> that the common type of hearing loss I have is mostly genetic.    What
> finally
> convinced me was recent findings that uncompensated hearing loss correlates
> with early onset of dementia.     Since that runs on my mother's side, I
> don't want to encourage it.
>
> On a more cheerful note, while visiting a nearby park recently, I found
> a nature Story Trail called Woodpecker Wham!, which, on close inspection,
> is based on a book by the same name of our own April Pulley Sayre.
> Here are some photos -
>
>
> http://granville-hough.oakapple.net/photo/2019-12-07-story-walk/preview/indexjs.html
>
>
> Merry Christmas to all and a Healthy New Year!
>
> David Hough
>
>
>
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