My Story Was Featured on Hearing Health Foundation
How I finally paid for the hearing aids I'd put off for years — now told on the site of the largest private funder of hearing research in the country.
My story about finding the money for my first pair of hearing aids was just published by Hearing Health Foundation — the largest private funder of hearing and balance research in the United States.
The piece, "Hearing Aids Cost Thousands. A State Program Helped Me Pay for Them.," walks through the years I spent putting off hearing aids because I assumed the roughly $8,500 gap left after insurance was mine to cover alone — and how my state's vocational rehabilitation program ended up paying for the entire $10,000 pair I still wear today.
It's the same funding path I write about in more practical detail here on HearLifeRestored, told from the personal side: what it actually felt like to walk away from the one thing that could give me my hearing back because of the price tag, and what changed when I found out I didn't have to.
Read the full story on Hearing Health Foundation →
Want the How-To, Not Just the Story?
If the funding side is what caught your attention, I've written the practical guides that go deeper than the essay does:
- Vocational rehabilitation for hearing aids — the exact program that covered mine, and how to tell if you qualify.
- In Texas? My Texas state guide walks through the application step by step.
- How to pay for hearing aids without breaking the bank — every route I know of, from VR to FSA/HSA to the VA to OTC.
Read the Story Behind the Story
The full account of a lifetime with hearing loss — surgeries, Silly Putty, and the drive home when everything changed.
My Hearing Loss Story How to Pay for Hearing Aids