Easier said than done...

Did i say something last post like, "if we can just keep Jarrah's ears healthy..."?

Well, it seems this is easier said than done.

Tomorrow is 7 days since that last test. Tomorrow will be day 3 of our next round of drops due to discharge from his right ear. And, i must confess, we didn't get on the drops right away, we waited a day or two for things to present themselves clearly.

How can this be?

How can a child go from having clear, apparently healthy ears on day 1, to having lots of odourous discharge (thus preventing the wearing of a certain hearing aid) in less than 7 days, probably closer to 3 days? With no obvious catalyst or other illness? This is verging on ridiculous.

Despite all this, Jarrah did very well at speech today with only one ear in - detected all 7 Ling sounds and listened very well to instructions...you could see his little brain processing the contents of the sentence backwards, it was fascinating! Apparently kids who are cochlear candidates don't detect all 7 Ling sounds, so that's encouraging that he can do that with only 1 hearing aid and who-knows-how-little-hearing in the other ear - and it confirms the opinions and decisions that have been offered and made so far.

*Sigh*, off to make my chemist richer than he already was...