I know this was yesterdays news, but I missed it.....
Still not caught up on this
thread.
I can help if you still need it, just let me know.
I did want to share my story of my youngest.
This is gonna be long:
She had many ear infections, and she didn't talk well.
Even at 4 she was still talking only in vowels. It was the oddest thing, but her tenacity still
amazes me. I had to interpret what ever she said. TV (television) was e e. School Bus was oo ah.
Her sisters were ay-a and ah-e (Megan and Ally). Sound it out... she pronounced the vowels sound perfectly in any word, just
completely left off the consonants.
Literally, she did not pronounce any consonants AT ALL. Except Mom-Mom.
That's what she called me. Everything else was only vowels.
Anyway, so after 2 years of arguing with schools and doctors that there was something wrong, she finally developed the habit of putting things up her nose.
EVERYthing. Pieces of diaper wipe, food, play-doh, you name it, it would go up her nose.
We had to take her to an ear/nose/
throat specialist and no lie...
he pulled 7 items out of just one side of her nasal cavities. Started with a tiny flesh colored plastic teddy bear off a hair-tie, a piece of crayon, a little blue thing we have no clue what it was, a few pieces of diaper wipe, some chips (food), and a press on finger nail.
When he pulled the tiny plastic teddy bear out, he said this is going in the case.
I said, what case?
He said my case of s@#t I've pulled out of kids noses. LOL
He also said, at the time, she held the office record for one side of the nasal cavities, but not the entire nose. (!!)
Anyway, we then took her to a hearing specialist, who told us she had chronic fluid in her ears, and he was the wrong doctor to help her.
Back to the e/n/t doc who put a tube in both ears.
Same day surgery, and my tiny little 4 year old just walked off with the nurse without looking back to "play with the toys".
Recovery room a couple of hours later, she sees me, sits straight up in bed and says plain as day:
Mom-Mom, I can hear!
All that time she had been talking and repeating words as she heard them.
Stick your fingers in your ears, that's what she was hearing.
When she sat up and spoke so plain and clear, I lost it.
So.... yeah. Tubes in the ears can be a good thing, and your little one is in my thoughts.
And to repeat, if you still need some help, let me know.