Random Thoughts

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I finally went four years ago and got hearing aids.  It dawned on me that I wear glasses to see better so wearing hearing aids to hear better makes sense.  Course it took me about a decade to come to that conclusion.  The audiologist said that's typical...7-10 years before seeking help.

I grew up wearing hearing aides, my family was receiving assistance from the state but that assistance went away when I became an adult at eighteen. My hearing aides lasted a few good years into adulthood, but of course they eventually died.

I could never afford new ones and I have never qualified for disability assistance.

There's a maximum they can charge for hearing aids here in TX.  Not sure how that works.  Mine are four years old this month and with health insurance they cost me roughly $900.00 out of pocket.  They still work fine and I like the Bluetooth capability.  I don't feel too bad about the cost spread out over this amount of time.

Do some checking.  My audiologist is promoting a program by Resound to get hearing aids to people who need them.