Huey Lewis battles through a hearing loss nightmare

[CatWoman]

The first thing Huey Lewis does when he wakes up each morning is reach one arm away from his body and scratch the sheet with a fingernail.

Can he hear a sound?

If he can, Lewis breathes a sigh of relief. Then he listens for the music playing outside on his 500-acre Montana ranch — the bugles of the elk, the flutes of the sandhill cranes.

But if the veteran rock star can’t hear his fingernails on the sheet, that’s bad news. One year ago, he suddenly began suffering from hearing loss. Now it comes and goes, mostly goes, randomly, a mystery with no last page.

It first happened before a gig in Dallas. Lewis, 68, and his bandmates were in his hotel room planning the night’s show. Suddenly, to him it sounded like he was standing next to a jet engine.

“He looked at us and said, ‘I can’t hear a word you guys are saying,’” recalled Bill Gibson, the band’s drummer and Lewis’ friend since high school.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/ostler/article/Huey-Lewis-battles-through-a-hearing-loss-13595174.php?fbclid=IwAR1PsbqTEuUYLiYYT8JQlAfYyPuxZo0dgFFiRbM-Y0BZvLDyQQybuVwDQIc#photo-16883228

[MontanaMama]

1. Off the topic of hearing loss but some trivia about Huey Lewis...

My husband is a taxidermist and Huey brought a pheasant to him to mount. He was super excited to have it done. He sat in a chair and hung out with the guys in the shop for over an hour just shooting the bull. I often see him at the local organic grocery store... I'm sorry he's having hearing troubles. That's got to be hard.