Monday, February 23, 2009

What Was That?

After multiple ear infections last year, and An almost constant one since December, we were able to get Rogan in to see an ENT. We had some concerns about his hearing so he had a hearing test done while we were there. Rogan did great during the tests (they gave him two) and he only fussed a tiny bit with the second screening. As it turns out Rogan has at least 15% hearing loss due to the constant fluid against his ear drums. The Dr. told us that basically to Rogan everything sounds like it would if he were under water. That sure explains a lot. Here I thought that he was ignoring me when I would talk to him, or just being plain old defiant. But no wonder, He just can't hear what I'm saying! So he will be getting tubes put in his ears in the morning which will drain the fluid and keep it from building up again. This will allow his ear drums to vibrate as they should and he should be able to hear perfectly again! And then there is always the benefit of no more (or at least drastically reduced) ear infections! I will be looking forward to a lot more of thisand a lot less of this (bet you can't tell what's wrong with him!).

3 comments:

Dana said...

How did Rogan do with his surgery? Adalyn goes next Wednesday for hers.

By the way, is Rogan potty training already????

Talysa said...

Aidan had "frank puss" (whatever THAT is) behind his eardrum at the time of his first surgery....the doc said he was probably only hearing muffled sounds....he was only 8 months old so they were concerned for his speech as well....but he was never delayed and his hearing was fine as well...of course he doesn't have that excuse now! :-)

I pray everything went textbook today and that Rogan is recovering just fine...and that when these are ready to fall out, his little eustachian tubes are where they are supposed to be!

Katelyn said...

although im sad he has to go through all this mess im glad you took that picture of him in his undies.he is so hilarious.and i like that he thinks daydie makes everything better.