Functional hearing????

Lizeis sooo flippin cute, sweet, energetic, inovative, creative, loving, motherly and spirited. GOD knew I would love these traits and foster them well. I prasie HIM for the gift of all my children but Lize took me extra work convincing everyone. Yesterday we visited Shriners for the audiology and ENT exam for Lize. Since her ear surgery in June she has done amazing although she has 2 major ear infections in the left. She has been speaking more clearly, more blended sounds and starting to use constanents at the beggining of words. The volume thing though seems to not change to dad's dismay.

In July I noticed some of the same behaviors I saw back in February. Her not turning to certain sounds on her left, hitting her self on the the left side of her head and the "whatd you said" phrase. I told myself-she's 3, it's learned behavior from before, stop overacting.........

Then yesterday the Audioligist and ENT had "that" look again. With a smile Dr. Curtis said we have functional hearing on the right. She has all ranges of function, can partipate in speech and will get "great" benifit BUT.....the left is a whole diff story. We know she had severe damage to the left eardrum and the bones are'nt able to vibrate like they should b/c of scar tissue. We also know sometimes surgery works but it didn't again. The tests say she hears everything on the left "muffled". He said she is an awesome compensator and will do well. He aggreed to try one more surgery in 3 months but then tht's it. We then have to concentrate on the "good" ear and decide on a hearing aide on the left or not. He also said if we wanted a 2nd opinion to not feel bad-he'd help any way he could.