ENT (Exciting News, Thanks!) or Ear, Nose and Throat . . .

Evie and her daddy @ the doctor {love her face}

So Evie had an appointment with an Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) specialist on Friday, October 8th! We weren't even sure why we were going to him before getting hearing aids, we were just following directions! Supposedly her ABR results were consistent with fluid in her middle ear, which was confusing to me because I think they would have seen that before now! BUT that was not the case, anyways. So we're in the waiting room and thinking, 'ok, they'll call us any minute now', well, right about that same time, Evie decides to poop her pants! YAY!

Braden: Is she . . .

Whitney: Yep

We just started laughing. We took our stinky babe into the bathroom and she yelled and screamed the whole time we were holding her down on the changing table! Nightmarish!

We finally get called in to Dr. Parks office! His 'assistant' came in and wanted us to give him a little 'history' of Evie. When we told him about all her 'bells and whistles' he was shocked! He couldn't believe her vocabulary and alertness. He said he wanted us to have a behavioral test and another OAE done before we saw the doctor. As it turns out, there was an audiologist available to do one right then! The {impatient} audiologist did the OAE in Evie's RIGHT ear and she P.A.S.S.E.D . . . . . she's never passed. She PASSED!!!!! :o) She even did a little better in her left ear too!

So we went back to Dr. Parks office and he didn't really do all that much. He pulled some ear wax out, which Eve HATED and then told us some amazing news! He said that he thinks her right ear is better than what we've been told. Possibly, not certainly, a perfectly normal hearing ear! SUPER GREAT! {It gets better} She may not need hearing aids at all! Even though she is severly deaf in her left ear, if her right ear turns out to be fine, they don't usually put a hearing aid on the bad ear if there is a good ear. He said it's like a person who is blind in one eye and see's perfect in the other. Why wear glasses? You're still going to use your good eye to see.

SO, just FYI, I'm not getting my heart set on Evie not having hearing aids. I think it still is a possibility and I am totally ok with that! BUT it would be really neat if she didn't need them!

We are going back out to Primary Children's in 2 weeks for another ABR . . . sad (I hate seeing Evie be sedated) and they will do an MRI of the brain at the same time! Isn't technology cool! Yes, it is! Then the next day we'll go back to Dr. Parks office to talk about the results of the tests and see what the best solution is.

I felt like I was prepared this time to hear whatever they had to throw at us. I'm glad it was finally something good! Even if hearing aids end up being the best option, I'm happy that she is hearing better in her right ear.



Evie did get some pretty cute things out of this trip, if nothing else! We got some super cute things for her 'Pinkalicious' 1st birthday party! I went a little overboard shopping for 'Evie clothes' . . . :) When we were @ the checkout Braden told the cashier that we weren't going to have enough money to buy food now . . . . hahaha He loves to make a fool out of me!