Summary
Two stories of silence. A young woman's hearing gradually goes away, so she and her family weigh their options. A radio producer with chronic tinnitus can't stand silence.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is unfictional. |
| 0:07.0 | Unfictional is KCRW's program of stories and original documentaries, |
| 0:12.0 | and today on the program two stories about breakdowns in the sense of hearing. |
| 0:18.0 | As someone who makes his living, making radio, I'm acutely aware of my hearing, and the sounds around me. I navigate |
| 0:26.1 | with sound. My moods are affected by sound. I even listen to television as much as I watch it, and that's why the idea of losing my hearing |
| 0:36.0 | is serious business. |
| 0:39.9 | For the last 20 years or so, people with hearing loss have been able to restore some of it |
| 0:44.4 | with an electronic device called a cochlear implant. |
| 0:48.1 | The solution is by no means perfect, and many people in the deaf community find them unnecessary or unsettling. |
| 0:55.0 | Amanda McDonough is a 22 year old graduate of Cal Poly Pomona. |
| 1:00.0 | All her life she's had hearing problems. |
| 1:02.0 | She wore hearing aids and hid the fact from everyone she knew, |
| 1:06.0 | and mostly she got by. But then, last year, everything changed. |
| 1:12.0 | Independent radio producer Brian Calvert spent some time with Amanda and her family and produced this story. |
| 1:19.0 | On KCRW and KCRW.com, it's unfictional and the rest is silence. |
| 1:27.0 | December of 2011, my goal was to get back in shape and actively pursue my acting career |
| 1:39.4 | when I met a boy. |
| 1:41.3 | That's not how all these stories start. He got sick. Nothing big, nothing exciting. Just a normal sore throat and a cough where I don't have a very great immune system |
| 1:56.2 | so I ended up pretty sick. My doctor recommended that once I get a little better |
| 2:02.3 | I have my tonsils removed. So I did. |
| 2:06.4 | And it was at this time when I started to notice that I couldn't really hear. |
| 2:17.3 | My name is Joe McDonough and I'm Amanda's father. |
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