Yeah, this is quite sad. But not too sad. For example, one of my co-workers' (woman) son is 9 and he'd deaf. Once she needed some stuff from work on her day off and her son was with her. Nice lad, only he can't talk b/c he never heard words. He looks pretty normal, though. What I like about that woman is tat she doesn't seem to perceive it as a tragedy of some major kind. She just carries on and is in good mood every day and she loves her son, I'm pretty sure about that. Of course, she also had 3 husbands but does it have anything to do with her son? Of course not.