Proposal Is First Thing Louisiana Man Hears After Receiving Cochlear Implant

Some of the first words Hayward Duresseau, 37, heard after his stint with deafness was a sweet proposal from his boyfriend, Kerry Kennedy, 27: "It's been kind of a long journey to get to this point but I'm glad we were able to do this together … will you marry me?" It came after Duresseau's harrowing journey through sudden blindness and deafness as a result of bacterial meningitis. InsideEdition.com's Keleigh Nealon (http://twitter.com/KeleighNealon) has more.