I just found out today that my little baby girl can no longer hear. If her back is turned to you, she'll only know you're there if she feels the vibration of your steps on the floor or if you enter the periphery of her (thankfully) excellent vision—though, if you yell loud enough, and look at her when you do, she might notice you're saying something to her; but, it's clear she does not know what you're saying like she used to. When you play with her using her favorite toy—basically dragging any long, thin and flexible stick, a piece of string or, strangely, a trash bag tie along the floor while she chases it—she can't hear where it goes anymore. If you move her toy too fast, and she loses her visual track, she has to look around for it, no longer being able to hear where it is: READ | An update to the story at the bottom of this post, written on the same day this video was made. Finding this out explained a lot of the startling and disheartening behavior
My inevitable demise, daily.