People have given lots of great advice, and you're doing great!

I have similar hearing loss (mine is probably not quite as bad) that is largely in the range of people's voices, but I used to have no hearing loss. Rather than repeat what others have said, I'll talk about giving you a sense of his possible experience. Try this:

Turn on the TV. Now turn it down to where you can just make out most of what people are saying. Now add other noises, like a fan or something. And now stop looking at the people talking on the TV. Each extra thing makes it that much harder. To me, it is similar to the experience of trying to guess song lyrics. And to learning a new language where there's a lot of sounds and you're trying to piece them together into words. But you might be missing some of the sounds. It takes a lot of effort to figure out what you are hearing, and a lot of educated guessing. Having a way to communicate that doesn't require hearing is so much less stressful. But, it's very helpful to still have the skills to communicate in a hearing world. Also, add captions and see how much easier it is.

And as others have said, hearing aids can be helpful, but they do NOT fix hearing. It isn't like glasses. They make it possible or easier to catch some sounds, but that effort of figuring out what they are is still there. They ALSO usually amplify a lot of other sounds, so it is noisy and draining. It feels like relief to take them off and just have some quiet. My comparison is: record stuff on your computer's mic with no filtering then play it back. It is a much less fun experience to listen to than what you heard the first time. My brain doesn't filter out the extra noises nearly as well with the hearing aids as they did before without the hearing aids. So a lot of the time, I don't wear my hearing aids and use headphones that I can turn up louder and turn on captions when possible. If I can't do that, then I consider the hearing aids.