Thursday 30 June 2011

Hearing: still not out of the woods

We were back at the ENT hospital today for yet another hearing checkup for Charlotte. While I am wholly grateful to the NHS for the first class treatment we have been getting for free, the waiting times each time we attend a clinic are phenomenal. But today it was pretty good: in and out in less than 2 hours. But no discharge yet.

Charlotte still has some mild hearing loss. In reality, she is probably no worse off than many children her age but because we got into the system, they can't discharge us in good conscience until she is testing normally. Today's tests went particularly badly: it was nap time, she was crying and carrying on too much to hear the sounds and hated having headphone-type sensors put in her ears. But we got the best results yet so hopefully next time, with more co-operation from her, she will get a good score.

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