Follow Ups

Today Ethan is off of food restrictions and can eat anything, including hard foods. He was really happy to be able to eat animal crackers again and have a vitamin. Hopefully this will cut down on the crying when he asks for something and we tell him he can't have it. He has actually been really good the last few days about not being too upset when we tell him he can't have something.

I also called Children's today to find out about two things:
1. Why he is scheduled to have another hearing screen
2. Why he is going to have a follow up with speech at Children's

Ethan had a hearing screen in June of 2011. That test did not go very well as Ethan grew bored quickly and stopped responding to sounds. To date, audiology has not really gotten a good hearing screen on Ethan. They know that he has both ear canals and that he has good hearing in at least one ear, however, they do not know how good his hearing is in the other ear. Since it will be 6 months in January when we go in for our surgery and sleep study follow ups, he will be doing another hearing screen. We are just concerned that he will have too many and our insurance will stop covering them. As January gets closer, we will see how Ethan is behaving and make the decision whether or not we think he will cooperate for his next test. We will also discuss this with Dr. Sie and see what she is thinking in this area.

Ethan is also making great progress on his speech. In the 3-4 weeks he was off of speech because we were in quarantine, he actually made a lot of progress working on things. Because he is doing so well, his speech therapist was talking about testing Ethan again to see where he stands and possibly discharging him from services. Children's also wants to do an evaluation, but they want to evaluate him more for medical reasons since he just had a T&A surgery. I guess they want to see how he is moving air through his airway post surgery, so Children's evaluation is more medical and the community speech therapist's evaluation is more progress related.

-Dina