Have I missed something here like the Second Coming? A miracle must have happened in Minnesota!
The OP has gone from 'moderately to profoundly deaf' OP states "It had gotten to the point it is very difficult to impossible to communicate verbally without hearing aids especially when lipreading is impossible" to "All of my interactions here in rochester mn, have been either over the phone or in face to face on "walk in basis" and all in the same post! Please remember that his $3000 hearing aids are useless. Praise the Lord
I believe the OP has short term memory loss as he cannot remember what he has said.
Its not the first one. Remember he's poor but can afford $3000 hearing aids. Also, in his post #483, page 25. He's corrected it to say "since birth". His origional post said "since before birth". Noticed that one re-reading what he'd said against a word copy(straight cut & paste into word). That would be an interesting one to try and explain.
On the subject of his hearing he has "basically 2/3 -3/4 total loss".
Now given that we cannot question his work, or lack of, which incidentally could get him out of the poor part of this post if he decided to take employment. Nor can we question his
Opening Post on this thread.
Could he please make it clear as to why he is unable to cycle the longer way round on a bike. Given that he has limited mobility, 100 miles is a distance many able bodied on here would like to do, let alone with a utility bike/trike. So dis-ability cannot alone explain his reluctance to work or take the longer way round. Maybe all his effort is being put into finding ways to avoid having to work rather than hunting & selling meat from an area he knows could be infected at a farmers market.