This First Person column is written by Kaja Montgomery, who lives in Toronto. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
I had been wearing flesh-coloured hearing aids since I was three. It wasn’t until 30 years later, when I saw my eldest son’s giddy enthusiasm at being able to choose any colour for his own hearing aids, that I abandoned the camouflage. We couldn’t hide our hearing aids, so we might as well be bold, have fun and wear them with pride.
Just before my 45th birthday, I went to my audiologist complaining that my right hearing
