Can you bore me now?
Thursday, Ryan had follow-up checkup #27 for his ear injury from Christmas. A fun ninety minutes through late-rush hour traffic had us arriving twenty minutes late at Walter Reed, but the audiology staff were nice enough about it. Only this time, when Ryan saw the lady in the white coat, he started to cry. Perhaps residual effects from Erin's nasty trip to the doctor on Monday; the doctor took her coat off and brought him a rubber airplane being flown by Grover, so that helped settle him down.
Again with the tubes and sensors in his ears, testing his reaction to hearing various noises (speech, tones, other white noise) in each ear. Ryan again behaved beautifully, not talking, following instructions, being very demure. When he did speak, it was a quiet, low, throaty, gurgly-because-he'd-been-crying few words. It was all subjective -- did he turn his head all the way to the right to look at the bear playing the drums when he heard a particular tone, or just because he liked looking at the bear playing the drums -- but they think his hearing in the right ear had improved. However, the 'puff' test showed both ears, particularly the left one now, as being 'flat' (little movement) with non-shiny eardrums -- possibly because of an ear infection, they said, which makes sense with his fevers all week. But they said they wanted to see him again in 4 to 6 weeks.
How about no. His bad ear has improved, he's feeling like crap, it's five hours out of our day, he's fine.
They even had the Obamacity to ask how his speech was coming along. No doubt worried about the throaty incoherence they heard in the room and the fact that he had been reaching for the Grover plane, then putting his hands down, as if he didn't know the words NO HE'S A SHY, POLITE LITTLE BOY DAMMIT HE'S NOT GOING TO JUST SNATCH IT.
They said, even on the printout, that he had possibly 'lost interest quickly' in the test, worried that in one ear, he hadn't reacted to one frequency's 'tone'. He's a two-year-old! Not an alien spaceship you need to communicate with through tones! You want to check his hearing, put on a Wiggles video two floors down, and he'll sing right along. Thursday night, outside on our walk on Pocomoke, Ryan was being held by my dad, and he looked down from shoulder level and told Grandad that his shoes were squooshy.
At any rate, his follow-up #28 with E&T has already been scheduled for next week, so hopefully cooler heads will prevail and we can convince them that further subjection to this subjective subject is unwarrantous.
Again with the tubes and sensors in his ears, testing his reaction to hearing various noises (speech, tones, other white noise) in each ear. Ryan again behaved beautifully, not talking, following instructions, being very demure. When he did speak, it was a quiet, low, throaty, gurgly-because-he'd-been-crying few words. It was all subjective -- did he turn his head all the way to the right to look at the bear playing the drums when he heard a particular tone, or just because he liked looking at the bear playing the drums -- but they think his hearing in the right ear had improved. However, the 'puff' test showed both ears, particularly the left one now, as being 'flat' (little movement) with non-shiny eardrums -- possibly because of an ear infection, they said, which makes sense with his fevers all week. But they said they wanted to see him again in 4 to 6 weeks.
How about no. His bad ear has improved, he's feeling like crap, it's five hours out of our day, he's fine.
They even had the Obamacity to ask how his speech was coming along. No doubt worried about the throaty incoherence they heard in the room and the fact that he had been reaching for the Grover plane, then putting his hands down, as if he didn't know the words NO HE'S A SHY, POLITE LITTLE BOY DAMMIT HE'S NOT GOING TO JUST SNATCH IT.
They said, even on the printout, that he had possibly 'lost interest quickly' in the test, worried that in one ear, he hadn't reacted to one frequency's 'tone'. He's a two-year-old! Not an alien spaceship you need to communicate with through tones! You want to check his hearing, put on a Wiggles video two floors down, and he'll sing right along. Thursday night, outside on our walk on Pocomoke, Ryan was being held by my dad, and he looked down from shoulder level and told Grandad that his shoes were squooshy.
At any rate, his follow-up #28 with E&T has already been scheduled for next week, so hopefully cooler heads will prevail and we can convince them that further subjection to this subjective subject is unwarrantous.
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