Payback Time…
I confess… I’ve told a lot of Helen Keller jokes in my lifetime. I can’t help it– they are funny! I mean, how can you not laugh at
Q: Why does Helen Keller need two hands to masturbate?
A: She needs one hand to do it, and the other one to moan
?!?! Or
Q: How did Helen Keller’s parents punish her?
A: they put her in a round room and told her to sit int he corner.
So now I’m being punished– my left ear is now 1/2 way blocked up. Before it was just my right ear, and I was getting kind of used to it. Deafness, schmeffness– I could go a month until I got health insurance with only 50% hearing. No problem. However, now that I’m down to only 25% hearing, it’s getting irritating. I mean, today I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark at Saki’s house, and I thought I didn’t need hearing because I already have had the film completely memorized since I was about 12. However, I couldn’t really hear the music, and that’s in integral part to the movie.
I feel like an old fart now, having to turn the volume way up on the TV and yelling “WHAT’D HE SAY?!?” every other sentence.
Thus I am going to attempt to navigate the complex system that is the Massachusetts health care customer service phone line tomorrow and try to see a real doctor. I called the info line today, and after picking about 35 menus, they gave me another phone number to call… which was the same number I had initially called! By some bit of divine intervention I managed to get another number to call, but of course there are never customer service representatives around on Sundays. Thus I will take an unpaid day off tomorrow to see what I can do. Hopefully I’ll be able to re-fill my prescription for happy pills too, because I’m almost out.
