John Bishop

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243 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe · I like a thin cheese · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

So we went through the process of trying to find the reason for it, et cetera.

And, and, um,

And he ended up being diagnosed with a rare autoimmune condition.

And whether that diagnosis was completely right or what, you'd never know.

But in the end, his hearing is stabilized to about 75% loss.

So with hearing aids, he can hear conversations.

And he's brilliant at lip reading.

And if an alarm went off, he wouldn't hear it.

So he's within the band of conversation that he's got.

But it meant for a period of time as a family, it was difficult because you don't know anyone of that world.

You don't know... And because if he was deaf...

You say, okay, well, he was a deaf person, but he wasn't deaf.

He could hear, but he couldn't go to Glastonbury.

He wouldn't go to Glastonbury.

He wouldn't go to a nightclub.

So you're in this thing that took us a long time, I think, to resolve.

But one of the things that I thought might be a way of...

I don't know, communicating better would be.

And also because of his hearing loss may become complete because we don't really know why it started.

And that's, again, that's an anxiety that I've perhaps not always understood that he's lived thinking that one day he might wake up and be completely deaf.

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