At birth, Stan Warner traded his hearing for a chance at life. To keep him alive, Warner said he was given the antibiotic, Streptomycin, which stripped away most of his hearing. “Most physicians said that there wasn’t anything they could do to help,” he said. “But, finally when I was 5, somebody said, ‘We don’t know until we try.’”Warner received his first pair of hearing aids, underwent speech classes and learned how to read lips.