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Twenty Nine
Three weeks later
Kene has been trying to make me feel good and jovial, he made sure the news of me being totally deaf didn't get out. He even spent a lot on me. He got me hearing aids, which were quite expensive, yeah not just one, a dozen of them. Though the hearing aids are incapable of truly correcting a hearing loss, but they are an aid to make sounds more audible for me. I could do without them, but that's only when I can hear things. There are times I can hear properly and at times I don't. But my doctor made it clear to us that It was going to get worse without treatment.
I have the Sensorineural hearing loss, it reduces my sensitivity to sound, which the hearing aid can partially accommodate by making sound louder.
Kene is going to be performing a cochlear virin implant on me, not exactly him, but his colleagues are helping out, he won't be able to perform the ope
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