Tina,

Sorry to hear about the changes in your hearing.  I got my aids through Voc Rehab.  They cost $3200 (about 4 years ago).  I have a severe-moderate loss in my left ear and a profound-severe loss in my right.
 

Dodie

----- Original Message ----
From: tina blue <tblue37@yahoo. com>
To: deafnessandhearingl oss@yahoogroups. com
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:15:02 PM
Subject: Re: [deafnessandhearing loss] This was posted on another group I am in

That's a funny story.

 

I had my hearing retested last Friday for the first time in 3 years. Not so good.

 

I went from severe loss to profound loss in my left ear, and from moderate/severe in my right ear, to severe all across the board in that ear.

 

I need new aids, because they can't boost the ones I have enough to meet my new needs. But the new ones will cost about $4000!

 

I will have to to wait. My adult kids are needing help from me right now, so I need to hold on to money for them. If it turns out that I can deduct them from my taxes next year, though, I will try buy them in late December. I might be able to deduct them, since the only reason I would get them is so I can hear my students in class and function in departmental meetings I have to attend. I am not social enough to really need them for anything else.

Since about 1/3 of my income  comes from self-employment, I lose 40% of everything I earn that way to taxes. If I could get a $4000 deduction from my taxable income next year, that would help a lot! But if I can't get a deduction, I will just wait at least until December of 2008.

 

 

 

 

Doreen <dodiepettipas@ yahoo.com> wrote:

Thought this was kind of funny. Things were dead in here, so I
thought it might start some conversation, lol.

Dodie

DEAR ABBY: I am 55. I consider myself successful and happily married -
- not too many things seem wrong. My wife and I have been married 27
years and have three children.
I have a question for you. I found a behind-the-ear hearing aid in my
bed by the pillow. My wife and I don't need hearing aids. There are
only so many ways that it could have gotten there. Do you think I
should be concerned? -- BURNED UP IN BURNSVILLE, MINN.

DEAR BURNED UP: Unless the pest control man has a hearing problem,
you should consider this a red flag. You are certainly within your
rights to show your wife the evidence and ask her, "Who's been
sleeping in my bed? Goldilocks?"

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