Just in the last week Darren's hearing has taken a big dive so much so that I've made him get a Doctors appointment. Every time hes in the house the volume of the Telly Im sure is at maximum now - so much so I cant stand to be in the same room - so hes watching telly upstairs and I'm trying to have normal volumes downstairs or vice versa - I go up if hes watching/listening to something downstairs - and communicating - forget it unless I'm facing him and speaking loud and clear and then he thinks I'm taking the p*ss! I am worried at how its gone quite dramatically in this last week - It had been bad - But now its Terrible. I think even he now would prefer to hear and not worry about the vanity of wearing an aid. Hes been to a hell of a lot of gigs/concerts through his life ( he started when he was about 14 ) Hes now 41 and hes been drumming all that time too - one of his last bands had 3 drummers all pelting away - and he never wore any head gear. I am wondering how its going to affect him in his job too. Especially as he will have to do lots of interviews etc soon. Anyhow let's hope the doctor can sort him out a bit. He loves his music lets hope its not killed his hearing in the process. Hes hoping still that a bit of syringing will be all it will take to sort out the current situation - I hope so but I have a feeling hes going to need a bit more than that.