Tues 9th Sept was the infamous double ENT appointment, both boys to be checked out. Dr checked Jarrah's grommets - all good...hooray!! The left side had some discharge going on at the time of surgery, but it was all cleared up now and looking fine. I reported Jarrah's increased responses as expected, and fortunately Jarrah was much more talkative during today's appointment than he's been during any previous ENT appt's, so Dr got a much more accurate picture of what he's doing...which is good. We have still been referred to the Mater Cochlear Implant team, just waiting to hear from them.
Kaelen was asleep at the appointment time (surprise, surprise! He sleeps anywhere, almost anytime...), so Dr was loathed to wake him to have a look in his ears, but he was due for a feed anyway so i said, "Go ahead! If you don't wake him, i will :-)" Apparently Kaelen has reasonably large ear canals, and nothing appeared to be amiss so far. There's nothing that can really be done surgically at this stage, he's far too little, so it's a matter of wait-and-see, get hearing aids from Aus Hearing (they'll be able to compensate for the conductive loss anyway), and let's check him again in 3-4 months time.
So, nothing major to report really...which in some ways is a good thing! The only disappointment of the day was that our friends who were going to accompany us into town and picnic with us afterwards were unable to make it due to late illness...would have been nice for the kids to have a run together, but nevermind, maybe next time.
Next appt: Wed 17th Sept 8:15am - Kaelen @ Australian Hearing
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