Well now you guys have done it. After several phone calls to multiple VA facilities (Federal govt. - oh yeah, I remember them now!) I was finally able to find out what I have to do to see if I qualify for hearing care. Won’t bore you with the details - but it doesn’t sound like fun. And there’s nothing quick about it. Since I’ve never made a service-related complaint, I’m not very hopeful - and hey…at 20 yrs. old, and back in the mid sixties - who’d a thunk that a gaggle of jet traffic going by100 yards away outside your door all day long would affect your hearing when you got old? So now I have a dilemma. Monday morning I have the zip hearing Audi eval. Too late to cancel that now. And I don’t really want to cancel that, in case the VA turns me down - then I’ll be waiting another month to get on the list again. And I don’t want to miss the chance to save a grand on a pair of aids should the VA thing go South. (Sounds like a second-rate plot for a Hallmark channel TV movie) I have a call coming in from a friend today. A former artillery officer who was also in the war. (If you stood next to an artillery piece all day I doubt you would have much trouble claiming service-related loss!) He’s going to fill me in on his VA experience. Would be nice to get the HA’s for free. Then I’d have an extra few thousand to give to my eye care people :((
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