In a message dated 4/10/2002 6:46:19 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> You lucky duck!   Here in the US, my insurance won't pay for it. :-(  Most
> insurance companies won't from what I've heard.
>
> Kat
>
They sure don't.  Be an old retired military fart though, and get em while
they're hot.  I knew a man who kept losing his and the military kept
replacing them.  Then he'd find the old ones.  He once showed me a jar full
of his not so old aids.  He'd find them after they had been replaced, and
stick them in this jar.  There ought to be a limit, but maybe there is now.
I don't care that they are being supplied with these things, and that
particular fellow paid the dues of two wars.  The last took his leg (and
didn't give it back).  He had quite a military history which I didn't even
know about until I went to his funeral, so I feel a little guilty saying
this.  Still though, the idea that this would go on and on because of his own
irresponsibility -- it galls me.

Since I retired, I stopped wearing mine for the most part.  Bundy has a way
of discouraging hearing aid use as well.  That would be a most unfortunate
combination.

Betty