Thanks for the read mate, my mum lost her hearing in one ear a few months ago from a virus. I feel quite affected by it, because it's my mum obviously, and because I'm a full-time musician so put myself in her shoes and imagine how life changing it would be. We always used to make fun of her for being deaf because she'd yell WHAT before you even get halfway through the sentence. But now she doesn't do that anymore, she waits until the end to check whether she's understood the gist of it or not, just like how you explained :)