I've never lost my hearing aids but have had several of them be broken or get wet. It's annoying and a pain to go without them until they are fixed or replaced but I make do.
I am exactly like you, except I'm deaf in my right ear and can hear maybe 40 to 50% out of my left with a hearing aid.
In all the jobs I have had I have disclosed my hearing impairment in the initial interview and have not been turned down for a job yet due to my hearing disability, far as I...
I have trapped several skunks over the years at work. Using a live trap and fish flavored cat food is the best way to go I have found. You can get about ten feet or so from them to shoot them in the trap. Any closer than that you are just asking to be sprayed lol.
Used to watch the weather channel all the time before I got a blackberry. Now it's redundant in my eyes because going to intellicast.com or weatherbug on a phone gives you real time weather updates. Most of the women on there aren't bad to look at though.
Best of luck finding what you want. I've never used something like that to wake up. When I was young my parents just kicked the bed or turned on my light. The absolute worse way for me to be woken up was a bed shaker. Hated it. For the past twenty years or so I have use a light timer.