To Hear
My wife's deaf brother is going in for a cochlear implant soon. He had profound hearing loss as a very young boy. Hearing aid technology has improved quite a bit over the years. I remember when he came to our house with new hearing aids and was puzzled by the sound the dog made when she lapped water out of her bowl. He didn't know dogs made noise when they did that. Implants should take him to a new level, but they are a bit scary, since they involve surgery and some special risks.
What would that be like? To be deprived of hearing at the age of 2 - and then to have it restored? I'm told you have to work at learning how to distinguish sounds, particularly speech sounds. I readily believe that. I had trouble distinguishing a lot of speech sounds, and my ears always tested healthy!
Rhyme of the Day:
Where silence was,
A dog's tongue laps
And watery claps
Excite the air.