Hearing: Checked

Colin had his [rescheduled] hearing test this morning. And this time we were prepared: John put the new referral in his wallet right away when he picked it up. 

Unfortunately, they only seem to schedule specialist appointments during nap times. We can only get in to see the pulmonologist during afternoon nap time. The audiology department only had appointments available during morning nap time. But at least this one started before nap, so Colin was still in a good mood. 

Apparently having an audiology appointment is like having a big party for Colin. They had fun toys, and it was a new place to explore, and the testing was kind of like games. John said he even did good with the parts where they had to look/put things into his ears.

The upshot of it all is, he passed — there is nothing going on that should be affecting his speech or hearing now. He did fail two tests, one on each ear. But those results were somewhat cancelled out by the other tests he passed on each ear. (It’s hard to do testing on such tiny little ears, so you have to expect you’ll get some conflicting results from time to time.) 

Colin does have some things in his ears that aren’t formed right, however. And that could, potentially, lead to problems down the road. Or not. They don’t know. So we will have to take him back again in six months for another test, just to make sure he hasn’t suffered from any hearing regression. But for now, he’s just fine. 

 

 

My little cutie boy, ready to roll.