Not specifically to you, Faith, you were just the last post, but I thought I'd give this a shot in the dark...
I lost my hearing when I was 16. I must preface that with the fact I didn't have hearing in my left ear, which I'd either lost at birth, or at a very early age.
Anyway, the doctors told me I'd had Labyrinthine Encephalitis, which became complicated by viral Influenza and the mumps, which unfortunately went down on me. the hearing went about a week later, fading in the course of a day.
My parents, who worked on that Saturday, made an appointment with a doctor, who unfortunately flew the coop for a vacation in Florida when I couldn't get there in time.
As it turned out, they later told my parents I was quite lucky to have survived the ordeal. I can attest...I was quite sick.
As events would have it, the literature states in such cases, the hearing usually does not return. I'm hoping something like this might resurrect a modicum of hearing, which a hearing aid might assist.
When I say I'm deaf, I'm not kidding. There's nothing there.
A few days before that hit, we had an awful lake effect event, complete with a white out (the first I’d ever experienced).
The storm that gave you the ‘77 event inexplicably missed Rochester, but a friend who lived in Williamsville took me out there a couple of days later, and I was suitably impressed.
I made myself a promise to NOT live in Buffalo if I could at all avoid it.
I’ve studied the constitution since I was 18 (I’m 73 now).
Can someone out there point me to this “penumbra” that was used to bring forth this original decision. Having never found it, I was always inclined to think this (abortion) was simply made up from whole cloth.