The ear doctor smiled as he looked at the headphones and made some adjustments.
“The Empire Strikes Back? The bald guy with the cool bionic radiotransmitter thing that wraps around the back of his skull?”
“I’m drawing a blank,” said Mom. “You know Star Wars stuff?” I asked the ear doctor.
“Know Star Wars stuff?” he answered, slipping the thing over my head. “I practically invented Star Wars stuff!”
He leaned back in his chair to see how the headband fit and then took it off again.
“Now, Auggie, I want to explain what all this is,” he said, pointing to the different parts of one of the hearing aids.
“This curved piece of plastic over here connects to the tubing on the ear mold.
That’s why we took those impressions back in December, so that this part that goes inside your ear fits nice and snug.
This part here is called the tone hook, okay? And this thing is the special part we’ve attached to this cradle here.”
“The Lobot part,” I said miserably. “Hey, Lobot is cool,” said the ear doctor.
“It’s not like we’re saying you’re going to look like Jar Jar, you know? That would be bad.”
He slid the earphones on my head again carefully. “There you go, August. So how’s that?”
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