The Day I Found Out I Was Going Deaf

I was told I had an inherited condition

Photo by Hayes Potter on Unsplash

Television had sounded muffled for about a month, and I began to wonder why everybody was mumbling. Like an elderly person without a hearing aid, I urged people to speak up. But I was only 38. My hearing was fine!

Then one day when I was walking, I noticed something strange. An airplane flying low overhead was…