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Audiology - an unexpected update

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Audiology - an unexpected update


So a few months ago we went to get Elis' hearing checked after getting his grommets in. His hearing in his left ear had returned to pre grommets and wasn't good at all, the audiologist couldn't see any trace of the grommet so we concluded that it had fallen out soon after the operation in November. Elis has since worn a hearing aid in his left ear. 

Recently he has made comments about not hearing at times and I assumed the other grommet may have fallen out. I did try to get him to wear his right aid but he wasn't keen after a few days so I decided to leave it as I knew we had an audiology appointment coming up.

Well today we went and the audiologist started by looking in his ears and she could see the grommet in his left ear clear as day! She couldn't see the right one though - I genuinely thought I was going crazy. But looking at her records she could confirm that his hearing had been down on the left ear. She explained that the grommet may just have gotten blocked up.

She also assumed that the right one was going through something similar. His hearing wasn't down as much on that ear but enough for us to feel it still best to keep an aid in. So now he doesn't need his left hearing aid but will have his right one in just to confuse matters and we'll need to try to be more vigilant and have continuous check ups.

Other than that he smashed it. He absolutely loves going to audiology tests as they just play games and he finds it so fun despite the poking and prodding. He is always blowing the staff away and today his audiologist decided he's so advanced in his understanding of what is asked of him that she decided to give him the controls adults use and did the tests they don't normally start until kids are at least 7 (they start to play two sounds to confuse them). Juno was a noisy tornado but he still managed to focus and while we waited for his new aid to be set up they wrecked the room together 🤣.




Afterwards they got treated to a play in a park and McDonald's (which Juno no doubt needed as she was the one that threw up in the car on our drive to Dundee today 😂 usually it is Elis so i had left extra early and with spare clothes for him. It's just as well they are in the same size clothes as Juno needed them or she'd have stunk the room out).

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