 it's your loved ones that spend time with you like no dad i said 10 not to or your wife is you know complaining about the tv being loud you just don't have a reference to what normal hearing is and so it's very common for a first time patient coming in for a hearing test we're already at a moderate hearing loss just because the awareness is not there so that's important that's why it's really important to get a baseline even if you feel like you're fine find out if you're fine because you just don't know