Deaf or Blind?

Deaf or Blind?
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My wife is deaf, and she functions quite well in the hearing world. Closed captioning, text messaging and lip reading combined for her success. I have been temporarily blind, and wouldn’t want to repeat that. For that matter, I have been temporarily deaf (the three days following an Eric Burdon concert, where I stood 4 feet from a speaker), and got thru it. (great concert, btw)
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