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Thread ID: 99433	2009-05-02 00:18:00	Feedback :) about hearing aids	Tony (4941)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
770177	2009-05-03 03:35:00	Let me know how you get on. I have always wondered about them. I think it was Sir Ed Hillary that used to advertise for them. You would be eligible for ACC assistance. I know I have just found out I am not. Top of the line behind ear jobbies,which it is said is the way to go were $4000. You would get a subsidy.	Cicero (40)
770178	2009-05-03 03:41:00	Being a pom you will able to get them free from British National Health www.nhs.uk	prefect (6291)
770179	2009-05-03 20:02:00	I had extensive hearing testing done under ACC at Hamilton but that was about 16-18 years ago. They may still have the records for it. They determined back then that both my inner ears were knackered. As I did not want to get around with a couple of huge hearing aids strapped to my back I let it drop at that point and have never pursued it since, just lived with it. prefect Although I am a Kiwi I did work and live in the UK for a while and now married to a Pom, I have a National Health ID number for the UK, but a bit expensive to fly there and sit on a waiting list for it.	Bantu (52)
770180	2009-05-03 20:25:00	I didnt mean you.	prefect (6291)
770181	2009-05-04 03:04:00	I had extensive hearing testing done under ACC at Hamilton but that was about 16-18 years ago. They may still have the records for it. They determined back then that both my inner ears were knackered. As I did not want to get around with a couple of huge hearing aids strapped to my back I let it drop at that point and have never pursued it since, just lived with it. prefect Although I am a Kiwi I did work and live in the UK for a while and now married to a Pom, I have a National Health ID number for the UK, but a bit expensive to fly there and sit on a waiting list for it. They are much better now,they put batteries in a suit case,but the ones with wheels, so handy to get about.	Cicero (40)
770182	2009-05-04 04:20:00	Got letter today from ACC to say they will be paying in full for my hearing aids. So then "What?" will be out of my vocabulary, although I may hear things I'm not supposed to. Lurking, I did CMT in 1958 at Papakura. Had a great time, as sergeant in charge of the Signals platoon. We had no Sigs officer so I became 'acting'. Radios we used were rubbish by todays standard, but I remember we talked to McMurdo Sound one night. Must have been a fluke. We fired nothing bigger than a Bren during training, but I remember a demonstration put on for us at Waiouru by a Centurion tank. Fired HE tracer and AP at a 44 gal drum on a distant hill. What was amazing was that you could actually see the shells on their trajectory. Bloody quick but still visible. Found it an excellent experience all round, and I feel sorry that it isn't still a part of all young men's education. :thumbs:	Richard (739)
770183	2009-05-04 04:31:00	ZC1 radio?	prefect (6291)
770184	2009-05-04 05:54:00	Grandpa was deaf as a post. You had to practically yell at him before he would even realise you were talking to him. Finally, at the pleading of his wife, kids and grandchildren he decided to get hearing aids, however he did not tell anyone about it for a few months. In this time he changed his will 4 times. :D	wratterus (105)
770185	2009-05-04 06:31:00	ZC1 radio? Yep, ZC1s were just about on their way out and we were the first to use a radio called C12 from memory. It was a transistor transceiver. Might as well have stayed with the old ZC1 though as the new radios had a pathetic range. Backpack sets were called 31 sets, and carried on an alloy frame. Had a huge Eveready battery inside which we tried to get rid of for route marches, but the instructors were wise to this. Damn things weighed a ton. :)	Richard (739)
770186	2009-05-04 07:06:00	They are much better now,they put batteries in a suit case,but the ones with wheels, so handy to get about. That would be much easier to lug about.	Bantu (52)
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