Deafness

There have two times in my life when I've had horrible nightmares that I was unable to speak to someone I loved - both in instances when I was estranged from someone with a life-threatening illness. And two people very close to Peter have recently told me that they have had awful dreams where they couldn't hear what he was trying to tell them or he couldn't hear them.
Peter and I hadn't figured out how to talk comprehensibly to each other; we had just been starting to try. I wish there had been more time.

(To the people I'm referring to above: if I am being a jerk and this is too personal to be mentioning in semi-public, tell me and I'll delete it.)