Yeah, I don't even make $10k in a year and as long as I can remember, I have always lived well below the poverty line. I made bad and rather desperate choices that also were a major cause of my hearing loss due to trying to get out of the poverty zone, I just stopped fighting it and gave up, poverty is like a Chinese finger trap.
Rehabilitaion services paid for my trip to the audi, but I'm still waiting to get any word from them on my need of hearing aids. That and I want this ringing to go away already.
The volume levels I have been playing at were the car's radio from 75-100% volume or the ipod with volume limiter off at 100%. Left my hearing feeling worse, but I can't live without music. I played guitar and last semester the professor in that class kept telling me to turn the amp down, but when I did, I couldn't hear it over the other students, so I gave up and just picked at a string for an hour until class was over. Last semester made me realize that I needed to follow up on my 2011 hearing test when they informed me of mild hearing loss.
