I am hearing
impaired in my right ear, this happened while hunting deer in New Brunswick, I
was paired up with “the one eyed man”. My partner had lost his right eye in a
work accident and being right handed he had to lean his head over the stock and
aim with his left eye. As you can imagine this was quite awkward.
Well as fate
would have it we rounded a curve on an old woods road, I was to his left and a
few steps ahead, we both saw the buck and 2 doe at the same time and raised our
rifles, as you can appreciate the awkward position of his sighting caused the
barrel of his rifle to pull to the left “BANG” the ensuing discharge and muzzle
blast left me hearing impaired a little more to the left and he would have hit
me in the head leaving me deaf in both ears.
To compound
my problems I was diagnosed with Age-related Macular Degeneration which
fortunately is the dry type. While on vacation in the Dominican I broke my
glasses and Pat had to read the menu everywhere we went. Upon our return I went
to get new glasses and during the eye test we discovered the macular
degeneration had progressed, the chart was black.
When I close
my right eye and look at people with the left their face is a blur, which can
be an advantage, now when sitting with a conservative I close my right eye and
turn my right ear toward them an “POOF” they no longer exist.
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