I am new here. I am 63 with a lifetime of hearing loss. At the beginning, I had severe hearing bilateral hearing loss, and wore hearing aids that rest on my chest in a strapped device and connect with wire to ear molds in my ears. I became very proficient in lip reading and oral communication. My family were all hearing. I went to school for deaf and HOH that focused on oral. We were not taught sign language there, although I now wish we did. I went on to be mainstreamed after first grade to through grade 12. It was very hard. I did not have access to external microphones in the classroom. I made do with sitting upfront closest to teacher, BTE hearing aids, lip reading, voluntary sharing of notes by students with me on specialized carbon lined paper. In college, I was able to get a profession note taker, and a powerful body aid that I wore with headphones. After college, worked at a bank, got married, had two beautiful healthy children and a wonderful hearing service dog. Later got into a accounting career. I now have new oticon exceed hearing aids and now trying to find a way to make my older Roger easy pen to work with it. My Oticon Prostreamer does not work with these aids, and therefore I cannot use the roger pen as I done before. I am not working now while the virus is still out there.