My little Princess has been saying “what?” “huh?” “I didn’t hear you!” a lot in the past month. Is she having ear issues, or just a 7 year old girl with attention issues?
Given her past ear issues, I decided to take her to the ENT to get her ears checked out.
She has hearing loss in both ears, significant in the right . . . nothing that can’t be fixed - just some negative pressure on the ear drum so her ear drums aren’t vibrating. But, since we’ve only noticed the issue for about a month, doc wants to wait until March to have her retested to see if it clears up on its own. We’ve got ear popping exercises to do daily before then as well as instructions to have her sit so she hears mostly with her left ear in class and to make sure she is looking at us before we talk until this gets cleared up.
Fun - good times - NOT! If her hearing isn’t better by March, then she’ll have to get tubes put in again . . . bluck. Her first set of tubes were put in when she was 15 months old . . . I have a feeling it will be a bit more difficult this time with her 7 year old strong-willed personality that freaks herself out about stuff like this!
Wish us luck that her ears fix themselves before March 4th!
That is awful. It explains it lot if she is not able to hear everything.
I will be praying for princess that everything turns out okay.
I am happy that she has her cat to enjoy and cuddle.
Sue
I am not surprised. There have been many times over the past month or so when I truly felt that Princess didn’t hear what I was saying to her on the phone and also during your visit to MN over the holidays. I am glad that you took her in and had her tested. Hopefully things will clear up on their own but if they don’t having tubes put in is not a major ordeal. Have a great day…Love…Mom
I do not want to scare you or anything, but since “knowledge is power” - let me share..
I do not talk about it much (if ever) of FOF, but #1 of 5 (21 year old son) is hearing impaired… He has has a “moderate to severe” loss in both ears since birth, but until recently that has never changed… Two years ago, one of his ears took a slight hit in the hearing department and is now listed as a “severe” loss (loosing the moderate).
His hearing is made “close to normal” by hearing aids… So when he wears them (he broke one, and is slow to getting it repaired - slow like a year now) you wouldn’t know he was impaired at all.
But this all started between the ages of 0-5. With “huhs”, “whats”, and “I didn’t hear yous” and almost CONSTANT ear infections, and tubes, tubes, tubes… Sometimes two sets a year.
Over 5 years that boy had learned to read lips a lot of the time! (Kids are so adaptable)
It wasn’t until school that teachers started really noticing signs of hearing impairment - and it was suggested that we take him in for a hearing test.
We took him in for one test, and the audiologist said “I do not believe kids this age can show us signs of hearing loss” - and did the test anyway. Passed him… Normal hearing.
A year later, same problems - we took him in and insisted seeing a audiologist for children.. She did one simple test… She asked #1 to repeat a sentence she said… Which he did just fine. Then, she did the same thing, only took a piece of paper and covered her mouth with it (so he could not see it)… and he was lost. He could not repeat what she had said (read her lips earlier)…
From there, she did some further (specialized) testing on him (testing for young children) and through the use of a Timpanogram (sp?) could see the loss…
Again, I do not share this with you to scare you… Only to help inform others of our experiences when it comes to ears, ear infections, tubes, and the like..
(BTW - the hearing loss was a birth defect - not anything tube surgery did to him)