Wilmington teen with rare hearing condition featured on Megyn Kelly show

A Wilmington teenager was featured on the "Megyn Kelly Today" show Friday morning for the rare hearing condition that makes her so sensitive to sound that it actually hurts.

Cindy Redmond, 14, was a part of the show's "Making Sense" series, which explored the "strange and fascinating world of human senses." Redmond has hyperacusis, a condition that can make the clanking of an ice machine, for example, feel like her ears are burning or being repeatedly stabbed with a knife.

In January, The News Journal profiled Redmond and the current research being done on hyperacusis. 

Cindy's ordeal started in November 2016, when she was visiting a friend's house, talking on her cellphone at the kitchen table. Her friend's stepfather asked Cindy twice to hang up. When she did, he blasted an air horn — which can hit up to 129 decibels — in her ear. Most people talk at levels around 60 decibels.

Because of her condition, Redmond is now home-schooled and isn't able to hang out with her friends like she once did.

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