It it just me, or does this sound familiar?

Been dipping in the oxycontin, Foxy? Did you inform your record label that you couldn't complete the album? I'd assume you were the victim of either carelessness around amplifiers or a cruel twist of fate, but I fell into that same trap with Rush Limabaugh!

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rocknation

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since both their sudden hearing losses were so, well, sudden...

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rocknation

anybody suffering sudden hearing lost is a partisan republican hack we should all detest.

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and despite my detesting him, I actually felt sorry for him until it came out that he'd brought it on himself through drug use. Let's just say that I'm once bitten, twice shy.

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rocknation

Or where you a big fan before this?

for a variety of medical reasons. It's a little unfair to blame her w/o knowing anything more about it (IMO).

And you could put an Oxycontin in front of me and I wouldn't know it from a Tylenol. Luckily I only lost hearing in one ear, but I'd feel bad for anybody who lost their hearing, no matter how it happened.

and pretending you could still do your work. Maybe Foxy spent it trying to get herself clean. Maybe.

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rocknation

Sudden severe sensorineural hearing loss is most often caused by a virus. (I tried to find a link between the sudden deafness & Oxycontin and failed. Have you researched this?) Foxy Brown isn't just losing some hearing, she is now totally deaf. This could be the end of her career as a rapper - many companies won't sign her for fear she'd be unable to perform, etc. That seems to me a much better reason for her to be quiet than spinning some secret Oxycontin addiction.

"Three days later Brown was diagnosed with severe sudden sensorineural hearing loss, a little-understood condition that affects one in 10,000 people without warning, often the result of a viral infection. Most suffer loss in only one ear and, when treated early, the condition can be reversible. But Brown has lost her hearing in both ears and has, so far, not responded well to treatment. "Her case is severe," says Dr. Anil Lalwani, an otologist whom Brown has consulted. "In only 1 or 2 percent of the cases are both ears affected." For months Brown tried to hide the loss, hoping medication and surgery might restore it."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/category?blogid=7&cat=257

Mine is just one ear, so I make sure and position myself where I can hear people. I don't know what I would have done if it was both ears, but if I could have done my work and not said anything about it, that's what I would have done. I'm just a private sort of person.