We spent hours at the ENT hospital today. The clinic was insanely busy and I had insanely taken both children with me to the appointment. They were good as gold though and I would have worried about getting back to Emily had she not been with me.
Charlotte still has fluid in her ears, one is completely blocked and this does cause some degree of hearing loss. Hopefully time in Australia will clear it up a bit and then going into summer will be good for colds too. This could explain her slight delay in speech so hopefully she will catch up fast if we can get her ears cleared up.
She did really well on one of the tests that went so badly last time. Her vision is clearly much improved, she was interested in the light up boxes of toys. I don't know if she liked the lights or the toys but she was very interested and smiling away.
Unfortunately, this means we have to go back to the hospital in 3 months time and do it all again. Hopefully they won't be so busy that they can't even move patients through the rooms. Also hopefully a long, long plane ride won't do her ears any harm. Note to self: Charlotte really calms down if I cuddle her and sing softly to her (so the other passengers might be listening to many, many verses of The Wheels on the Bus).
Charlotte still has fluid in her ears, one is completely blocked and this does cause some degree of hearing loss. Hopefully time in Australia will clear it up a bit and then going into summer will be good for colds too. This could explain her slight delay in speech so hopefully she will catch up fast if we can get her ears cleared up.
She did really well on one of the tests that went so badly last time. Her vision is clearly much improved, she was interested in the light up boxes of toys. I don't know if she liked the lights or the toys but she was very interested and smiling away.
Unfortunately, this means we have to go back to the hospital in 3 months time and do it all again. Hopefully they won't be so busy that they can't even move patients through the rooms. Also hopefully a long, long plane ride won't do her ears any harm. Note to self: Charlotte really calms down if I cuddle her and sing softly to her (so the other passengers might be listening to many, many verses of The Wheels on the Bus).
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We have an ENT appointment for Rocco next week. At 8 1/2 we have some sneaky suspicion that something is amiss. yikes! Rocco was very delayed in language. He didn't start talking till 3 and only really talked at 4!!! Now he's like any normal 8 year old. Wonder if it's something to do with not seeing as well. Keeping a little to himself? Also, one of the reasons we never suspected blindness is Rocco loved all the lighted toys. It was pretty funny how much he loved the lighted toys.
ReplyDeleteIn two weeks we head to L.A. for the Junior Blind Olympics. It's a fun event put on by a school for the blind. This will be Rocco's third year competing. The best part is Goalball. It's an international sport and truly the most amazing thing to watch. Google it and maybe you can see how it's played.
Hope you enjoy Australia!
Thanks Sascha!
ReplyDeleteGood luck to Rocco both for the ENT appt and the Blind Olympics. How great that you can access all these sports and blind activities for him, I really hope to get involved in that sort of thing as Charlotte gets older.