MEDICAL SCIENCE MYSTERY: My mother's hearing has noticeably deteriorated to the point where I now have to say everything to her twice...but she heard me mutter "Get a hearing aid, for fuck's fucking sake!" with perfect clarity, over a leaf blower, AND the smoke alarm.
I wonder if this is a mom thing. I can call her name a million times and she won't hear me. I get up at night to get some water and the minute my foot steps on the carpeted floor she's asking me wtf I'm doing.