Two of my friends are fairly deaf. Neither seems prepared to do anything about it.
One wears hearing aids but still misses a lot of what is said. Today in a group conversation ( in a house, so no background noise) she really struggled to hear what was being said. Are her hearing aids no good? Does she need a retest?
The other friend has no hearing aids. She missed hearing the announcements at a meeting and when I went through them with her afterwards I took the opportunity to politely suggest she had a hearing test. She implied she could not afford it. I know regions vary. Our local Specsavers does not do NHS hearing tests, so there is probably a long wait to go through the NHS systems. Is that the only route if she cannot afford to go private?
Why don't I see them on "I'm on"???
