...would be for you to get a cell phone and lose the land line. You can keep your same phone number.

I always carry my phone in my left front pocket. It's set to ring and vibrate with every call. I have separate alerts (plus vibrate) for texts and email. I never miss anything that I don't want to miss. I use the calendar alerts for appointments and tasks that need a reminder.

My phone is my communication center. I have unlimited internet access, unlimited calls and unlimited texts for $50/mo.

I couldn't function without my cell phone. I carry it with me at all times.

TYY

but I honestly cannot hear most people on the cell, and I cannot hear automated menus at all on it--though it is always iffy whether I will hear them on my landline, either.

I only use my cell to call out, not to receive calls.

http://www.harriscomm.com/catalog/default.php?cPath=47_1053

Sorry, I found this group when someone linked to it from GD. I remembered a hard of hearing friend mention some of the tools they use to be able to hear folks on their cell phones.

Hope this helps!

you might be at least slightly amused at this story: When I was in high school in the early 1960's, my French teacher wore a hearing aid. He was a remarkable teacher of the language, I hasten to add. But on days when he was done with the actual lesson a bit early, and had us working on our homework, he'd turn off his hearing aid. We learned rather quickly that we could talk to each other in normal conversational tones and he never heard a word.

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while sitting right next to me. He also loved being able to play his punk rock music at high volumes, even early in the morning and late at night.

My daughter, though, freaked out when she finally got home 3 hours late from sheltering at work one day when a tornado smacked our town around. She walked into the apartment to find me sound asleep on the couch.

"Hey, Mom! You just slept right through a freaking tornado!"

Never even heard the sirens.