Sorry to hear that. I did notice lately he seemed to be having problems hearing people.
Rush's hearing loss is his own fault - it's a common side effect of prolonged use of high-dose opiates like Oxycontin and Percoset.
Nobody should be happy about his problems, but they are 100% his own damn fault.
That said, cochlear implant technology seems to be pretty neat stuff.
you mean besides the fact that hes been deaf for a few years now?
It sounds like he's using a transcriber for some help during the show. What that is like is having a captioning machine available to read as people talk.
He also seems to have occasional trouble pronouncing certain words correctly.