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10. I'm glad you got tested and are getting help

One additional suggestion: If you're at all interested, take some sign-language classes, with any friends and family who'd like to join you.

ASL is a neat language, fun and relatively easy to learn, and if you later wind up losing further hearing (something like 85% of people do as they age) you'll be very glad to have already learned it. If my grandmother had done so before she became hearing impaired in her late 80s, it would have been easier to talk with her.

(Needless to say, it's also generally great to be able to talk with Deaf people. Knowing ASL is useful in other circumstances, too, such as for talking in noisy spaces, across crowded rooms, or anywhere you need to be quiet.)