Yesterday, Thom, Troy and I were BACK at the hospital for Troy's hearing aid evaluation.
Everything went well, minus the part when I snapped at the audiologist (oops!). I really didn't mean to, but it's hard as hell to get that little boy to wear his hearing aids! I know she wants what's best for him, but I also know she has not had to sit by a screaming 10 month old in his highchair for hours on end just so he won't pull out the hearing aids he hates so much. So when she told me 5 hours a week wasn't enough my response was "Well, it might not be a lot to you, but it's tons to us!" My husband then gave me that look that said you're being a jerk again. Oops! It's just so frusterating!
Anyways...Troy tested with his hearing aids on. I don't think that the test was very conclusive considering we set in a sound-proof triangluar room and she talked into the speakers and looked to see if he would turn to them. Well...YES he will turn to them if everytime you talk in the speakers they light up and have a Spongebob toy spin!! So I'm frusterated as hell, but I know we are done with the evaluations now.
At this point our ENT collects all the paperwork and sends it over to the insurance for approval. It's a long and frusterating waiting game, but it has to be done!! If you could send some prayers our way...I would greatly appreciate it!
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Oh, I hope your insurance will cover the hearing aids. Ours didn't, but we did get early intervention to cover earmolds and batteries.
10 months is a terrible age with hearing aids. Nolan started ripping his out at 9 months and is still pretty bad about it. Pilot Caps from Hanna Andersson helped for a while, but then he figured otu how to reach under the hat. At least now he takes them out, says, "MY DON'T WANT THIS!" and hands them to us (rather than throwing them across the grocery store). Sigh...
If you can only get 5 hours, then that's five hours of positive listening time. I say take what you can get at this point- it is such a frustrating time for parents and child! I know they want them in all waking hours, but we've had a terrible time with that. Now we'll get 6-8 hours per day on a good day, but at 10 months we only got a couple of hours (with the aid of a pilot cap)! Hang in there, it will get better (but not overnight)!
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