Vixen.*@f11.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Vixen *) (02/12/90)
Index Number: 6674
Hi,
Well, rehab and medic-cal are still fighting over who is willing to
pay for my hearing aid and FM system bill!
Medi-cal, it seems, is getting so they don't want to provide aids
unless they are practically useless to you and rehab won't provide
them unless medi-cal refuses! So, the client gets to wait ten weeks
or more while this agency ragtime goes around and around.
Rehab already told me that they won't go for the FM system that was
recommended because it is too costly and they don't consider my
loss profound enough to justify such an expenditure. At first, I
became a bit upset by this until I found out the system that was
recommended costs about seventeen hundred dollars! I thought the
clinic was talking about something like a PocketTalker, which costs
under two hundred dollars. So, I can see rehabs point here. The
PocketTalker works fine for me. But rehab says "no way" on the
seventeen hundred dollar system.
My counselor says that they will probably foot the bill for hearing
aids and would probably go for an A L D like the PocketTalker. For
awhile though, I thought my counselor was going to leave me footing
the bill!
I love it, I love it! And she'll have fun fun fun 'til rehab takes
her T-switch away!
Keepin' the faith!
. Vixen
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