Keeping up with Shannon

June 5th came and we were expecting to receive her hearing aids but there was a miscommunication. We called before the appointment to make sure they had arrived and the receptionist corrected the mistake and said we were just going for impressions. My mom watched Conner because I knew he would freak out at the audiologist because Shannon would be crying. We got to the appointment and as soon as the audiologist walked in Shannon started to cry and tried to crawl up on me and get away. She is so sick of people bothering her and her ears. He had to mix some putty together, then he placed it in a syringe, then, after he placed a tiny sponge looking thing in Shannon's ear with a string attached to it he shot the putty down into her ear canal. Oh, the screaming and clawing. I was having such a hard time holding Shannon down, she is so strong. The putty then had to sit down in her ear and harden. He left the room for a few minutes to find someone who could help us with the other ear. One of the secretaries came in with some bubbles to try and distract Shannon. By this point Shannon had calmed down but as soon as that audiologist came close to her she spun around and gave him this look like, don't you dare touch me. After some more screaming and pinning down we finally got both impressions. She will have pink aids and the mold that goes in her ear will be clear. It is crazy how many color choices and patterns there are for not only the aid but for the piece that goes down in the ear as well. For the first few years of her life she will have to get impressions every 6 months because of how fast kids grow. It will take 2 weeks to get her aids back. On June 6th we had an appointment up at Primary Children's with a different ENT doctor. I love Primary Children's such an awesome place. Their waiting room is filled with so many toys, they even have tv's set up with video games. This was the first time we had seen this ENT so after a quick recap of Shannon's history and a look at her hearing test results he decided that there wasn't enough information received on the tests. He had us do another test while we were up there, but this one was completely different than the others. We sat in a sound booth and they played different sounds at different pitches and watched her response. The ENT doctor said he agreed Shannon needs hearing aids but he wants to do additional testing to figure out the source of the hearing loss. He said there are two different types of hearing loss, one is conductive and the other is sensorineural. Conductive hearing loss can eventually be fixed with surgery, but sensorineural has to do with nerve damage and is permanent. We will be headed back to that ENT in 3 months were he will check Shannon over and then he wants to do an MRI and another sedated ABR. He was great and it was a very good visit. Next week Shannon only has two appointments, one with the physical therapist and the other with Kids on the Move.