Can they hear anything?
Yes, but only very loud and very low frequencies. During their adolescence both Brian and Tim experimented with rap music with its booming bass lines. There’s a famous family story where Brian and Tim took the family van to drive a few errands and Jennifer was out on the front lawn when they were driving back to the house. Jennifer could see both their heads bobbing rhythmically to some deliberate beat, looking at each other in silent recognition, heads nodding at exactly the same time. They parked the van and went inside the house. Jennifer just had to know what they were listening to so she went into the house to get the van keys and turned on the radio. The only thing that came out the speakers was static, loud hissing static. It’s a great little story and I couldn’t tell you what quotient of it is absolutely true, but it’s a nice illustration of what kind of trials and tribulations Brian and Tim have had in the Hearing World. In winter of 2006 Tim underwent surgery and received two
