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Sidney Chahonyo suffers partial hearing loss but that has not stopped him from going about his life.
It all began at the age of seven during a trip to Mombasa. “I got a very bad case of mumps. I was treated for malaria and my body reacted to the treatment, as I lost hearing on the left side,” he recalls, adding that things got worse when he was diagnosed with cancer of the post-nasal space at the age of 19.
By this time, he had a one-sided hearing and had been warned about losing his hearing completely because of radiotherapy and the proximity of the ear to where the cancer was.
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