Does he hear what we hear?

The answer is yes.............to an extent................Let me explain. Over the past year or so we have been dealing with a lot of unanswered questions about Nathan's hearing. Shortly after Wilson was born we noticed Nathan was watching TV with his head turned so his ear was parallel to the television, and cutting his eyes to the side to actually see the TV. This was our first sign. We took him in and they informed us that his original tube was out and he was so full of fluid he could not hear. I have never heard of an "emergency" ear tube surgery, but that is exactly what happened. After the tube was replaced and the fluid was gone, Nate's hearing should have returned to normal in that ear. The hearing test done by our local ENT showed he still had decreased hearing. Dr. B was not too concerned, so on with our lives we went. Just recently, same thing happened, tube out, full of fluid, emergency tube placement...........you get the picture.:) We went about a month ago for a hearing screening and again the test showed he had decreased hearing in his "good ear". Now, most people don't have to really be concerned with this but as most of you know Nathan is a different story. With only 1 good hearing ear, we are very protective of that hearing-------------so off to B'ham we go! I made the decision to have a 2nd "opinion" hearing test done at Children's with pediatric audiologists and a pediatric ENT. All I can say is THANK YOU for all of your prayers! After an extensive hearing evaluation on both ears the audiologist came to a very pleasing conclusion. His good ear tested completely normal (speech development ranges)--- Praise the Lord! And the nerve in his "little" ear tested normal, which is very good for the future. Thank you all for your calls and concerns and again most of all for your prayers. We truly received an answered prayer yesterday. The only thing we have to remind ourselves is , yes he has normal hearing in his left ear, but he only has 1 ear to actually hear out of. I find myself getting so frustrated when he is in a room with other people and he "ignores"me. So YES the hearing is normal, but he does not hear stereophonically like we do. But this is definitley something we can deal with. :)

I know this was a little long, but so many of you were interested and calling, I figured this would take care of anyone who might want to know.