【英语阅读】HearingorLife(要听觉还是要生命).docxVIP

Womans Choice: Hearing or Life?要听觉还是要生命？To save her life, Jessica Stone had to lose her hearing.为了活命，杰西卡·斯通不得不失去听觉。Now to the inspiring story of a young woman faced with a difficult diagnosis. The surgery she needed to save her life would cause her to lose her hearing forever. So how would you spend your last days being able to hear the world? Jessica Stone did it with bravery and grace. 下面是一个年轻女子面对困难的诊断的鼓舞人心的故事。挽救她的生命的手术会导致她永远丧失听力。所以你将如何度过你能够听到世界的最后一天？杰西卡·斯通用勇气和风度做到了。Taste it, taste it, love’s so sweet. And all of it was lost on me.品尝它，品味它，爱是如此甜蜜。所有的一切我都失去了。Imagine a symphony of sounds that make up your life, your favorite song, your familys laughter, your dog. Now imagine counting down the weeks, days, hours until every sound disappears. 想象一下，组成你生命的交响曲的声音，你最喜欢的歌，你的家人的笑声，你的狗。现在想象，倒数剩下的周、日、小时，直到每一种声音都消失了。Really, at a loss for emotion, freak out, actually. To be very blunt, freak out. 真的，在情感上的缺失，吓坏了，真的。老实说，吓坏了。Surgery has been a fact of life for 23-year-old Jessica Stone since she was a little girl. But it wasnt until she was 15 that doctors were able to put a name to her disease neurofibromatosis （多发性神经纤维瘤）, a rare genetic disorder that causes benign tumors to grow along her nervous system. 手术已经从小就成为了23岁的杰西卡·斯通的生活中严酷的现实。不过她不到15岁时，医生已能确诊她患了多发性神经纤维瘤，一种罕见的遗传性疾病，导致良性肿瘤沿着她的神经系统生长。The diagnosis was, you know, pretty much a kick in the gut. 这个诊断，你知道，几乎是致命的一击。Over the years Jessica has had more than 20 surgeries to remove the tumors. 多年来，杰西卡已经做了超过20个手术来清除肿瘤。Since this whole thing started eight years ago, I wanna crawl up, a lot of days and cry and I cant because, I cant do it because she doesnt do it. 自从八年前这一切开始以来，很多天我想精神崩溃地大哭，但我不能，因为，我不能这样做是因为她没有这样做。Her humor has always found ways to make her through and she is just a beautiful person inside and out. 她的幽默感总是让她找到度过难关的方法，她是一个秀外慧中的女生。Shed already lost the hearing in her left ear and then this went her devastating news, there is a tumor pressing against her brainstem that has to come out. And the operation that will heal her w