Later today I will go to the doctor to see if I have Minears disease or not. (It has to do with losing your hearing and having a lot of fluid in your ears for too long of a time and it is quite painful, what ever I have.)
My mother said that my grandfather and his mother had the disease so I had my sister call her dad and ask if Granddaddy and his mother had the disease. It is very rare to have a family member with the disease 5-10%.
He is pretty sure that my great grandmother had something like that; however, my grandfather didn't go deaf that way. He had the most origional way of going deaf.
See he fell into the grain silo and they got him out and he kept telling the dr that his ear hurt. The doc saw nothing (remember this is Applachian country, eventhough he lived in Christiansburg which is about 35 miles to VA Tech from his house.)
Well eventually that piece of grain had such a great growing place that it rooted into his eardrum and grew out of his ear.
This I have to say is probably the strangest thing that has ever happened to my family. I don't know the year but I have very few memories of him without his hearing aid.
Anything really strange in your family. My sister said at least now she knows where she gets her Mindy Moments from. Our fathers' side of the family and not our mother's side.
Take care and by all means share your weirdest story and see if you can top that.
Beth.