a bee buzzes, a scream shrills, a horn honks, but silence... silence... Silence sounds... it's not the absence of sound but much more, more than I expected in the lows of loss. It's like waves... clashes of particles in the air and tumbling together in a rush of fusion, movement. Silence is not... lack, but an abundance, of more... more possibilities, new ways of hearing, new ways of feeling... being... MORE.
I lost my hearing after brain surgery for almost 8 months and then it started to return gradually, taking 5 years to regain 80 per cent capacity.