You cannot stutter if you cannot hear yourself. Was it worth the trade-off. I will never hear my children's voices or my husband tell me he loves me. Yes, we are learning American Sign Language, so we do communicate. But the world of magnificent sounds and music is gone forever for me.
Life has many twists and turns.
Some we can plan for, some we cannot. I had coped so well for so long with my stuttering, it really had become a non-issue to me. I made speeches, I made telephone calls, I taught college-level classes and much more. Most days totally forgot about my stuttering. When I realized I was going deaf and it was confirmed by the doctor, the insecurities I had once felt with stuttering, flooded back into my life.