David Vance beat stage 3 and survived grueling chemotherapy and radiation treatments. But a rare hearing disorder became too much for him and he attempted suicide in 2018. The 40-year-old, from Ontario, , native now lives an isolated life with pain hyperacusis, an unusual condition for which there is no cure or treatmentIt makes turning a page sounds like a bomb going off in someone’s ears. Music sounds like a ice pick to the eardrum; a siren like a rocket being launched from a mere foot away.
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