Mine is only one ear luckily - about 50% hearing loss - I am still lost without my hearing aid. I dont list it anyway as a disablility either as in my mind it isn’t. It has it’s benefits when I go to sleep for instance

I did go to a saints game last year though and the battery went and the only one that i had on me was faulty/flat. I felt lost! (So did we

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Although I wear a private aid, as long as you have a NHS one (I do) you can have one. It’s £20/year - once you have a London trip or a couple of trips to Saints (I live in Bournemouth) it pays for itself. What I normally end up doing is doing the football run 1st class as it makes it cheaper than the standard class normal price ticket