friends help: My friend is going deaf. - Help.com

i don’t know. from what i can tell there aren’t a lot of medical professionals on this site. we can listen and give advice. or we can guess. there may be a medical chat site that’s more helpful.

ask for a miracle?

She could be deaf for just a period of time .
May be

Like most incurables it is degenerative (gets worse over time), good news though unlike most incurables your friend is lucky that this will not shorten her life or take away her ability to live a fully interactive social life. The hearing degeneration typically takes years and with modern treatments she may have decades without any real worries. In the end though you are correct, hearing loss is the final result. Not really the end of the world though, many of my friends growing up had complete hearing loss (I have complete hearing loss in one ear and partial loss in the other). It really doesn’t hinder your life the way many hearing people might think it would.

When eyesight compensates for hearing loss, or vice versa it’s really just a psychological shift of focus, not an actual biological change. Just because her eyesight became a bit better doesn’t indicate that her hearing is getting worse. Besides, even if her hearing is deteriorating, it may not be the most convenient thing in the world but it’s definitely not handicapping.

That’s what good friends do, we worry about eachother :) Just make sure you don’t become ‘overly sensitive’ to it, when someone else worries more than you about something that affects you in a very personal way it can be frustrating.