My sensitive ears

     Have you ever heard an expression that when a body part is lacking, another part takes over? I may didn’t wording it right. Most of my body parts don’t work properly, but my ears should do. Dad loved to tell everybody that I would be in my room with tv on and they could talk with the living room tv on, and I would know what they were talking about. I can’t help it if I have sensitive ears. At night, if I heard them, I would go and check on them. No, we wouldn’t close bedroom doors unless my brother came home.
     I have grown out from my sensitive ears about 80%. Kids love loud noise, but I ran from them and cried. I didn’t like fire trucks, fire drills, get the hallway when school had a tornado warning and fire alarm sounded, fireworks and so forth. Dad was in the fire department, and I didn’t play on the trucks with other kids. I didn’t like turkey shoot. Dad would buy fireworks for the family, and I stayed in the house missing all the fun. We didn’t go to parades. I had a chance to walk in Camden parade with my DARE class, but we were lining up behind a fire truck, Dad took me away. My nerves couldn’t take it.
     Thank God for earphones. I wore them a lot! We did many things with my ears covered, and I enjoyed everything. I wore them when we used to go to singing events. The more singing events we attended, the less I wore them. In my 40’s, I was in parades, but the fire trucks were up from us, and we played music.
     I still have a problem with balloons. They didn’t do anything, but if I see balloons, my nerves get the best of me. If people start talking, I know the pop won’t be loud, and I won’t cry.
     Suddenly a loud pop will put me into a panic. My nerves get the best of me, and I will put my fingers in my ears to avoid making a fool of myself. If somebody doesn’t try to calm me down, I can get back in control. If somebody sees me getting upset, please give me time to get it together before speaking to me.
     If there is any noise, I will hear it. If I hear odd noise, I'll look for it or tell somebody.