I came home from work one day during lunch, somehow slipped and fell on my sidewalk and ended up covered in dirt.  So I needed a shower before I headed back to work.  I'm hearing impaired, so I wear a hearing aid, so I have to take that out before I take a shower.  After taking my shower and getting all dried off, I'm trying to find my hearing aid.  It's not where I left it on the counter of sink.  I looked to my right and I see my dog, Blue, chewing on my hearing aid!  DESTROYED!  I mean, literally, the thing was in such small and tiny pieces, it was crazy!  Being the only device I have to hear, I just start screaming at her and crying because I could not hear a thing!  And I did not have a spare hearing aid to take care of my situation at the moment. 

I had no idea what I was going to do, I couldn't call my boss at work to tell them I was gonna be late back from lunch (or in my case, I didn't end up back there at all for the remainder of the day)!  So here I am panicking on how to get a hold of my boss to tell her what happened.  The thought going through my mind was this: You hear kids try to tell their teachers "my dog ate my homework so that's why I don’t have it"...

and I'm thinking, how in the world is my boss going to believe "my dog at my hearing aid so I couldn't come to work"?!?! 

I had only one hope, calling my grandma. 

Even though I could barely hear anything, I told my grandma what happened and asked her to call my work for me and tell my boss what had happened.  Then asked that she come pick me up from my home and take me to my audiologist so I could see if I could get a spare hearing aid.  The next day when I went into work however, I did bring in my chewed up hearing aid to show my boss that I was not lying, that my dog really did eat my hearing aid and I could not come back to work until I had something to hear with! 

I swear, I felt like I could have killed my dog that day after getting out of the shower!   But i guess that’s what dog do - eat stuff they’re not supposed to.  Ughh!