Purple Dragon

Did I tell you the saga of Lala's hearing appointments?

She's had problems with her hearing for a while. After nagging my GP for some time, we finally got an appointment thru (last December) for a hearing test, which she failed. He said her hearing was okay but she had fluid build up which was what was causing the problems. She was to go back in 3 months.

Fast forward three months. No appointment. I phoned the hospital to see what was happening. To cut a long story short, I must have phoned 6 or 7 times over a couple of weeks and then quit. Phoned the GP office and asked them to chase it up as I was getting nowhere. They also got the runaround and after a couple of weeks finally discovered they were calling the wrong place. Phoned the right place and got an appointment for today.

Went along at midday and she did badly again. The audiologist had to increase the sound levels 5-10 decibels in order for her to register the sounds. They also had this wee machine that tests the reverberation of the eardrum. When they do whatever it is they had to do, the machine should show a spike, but hers only had a flat line, which means that there is little or no reverberation of the ear drum. This is because of the fluid build up in the ear canal.

So, we now have to wait another 2 months for an appointment to see the ENT bloke, get another hearing test, and then take it from there. I know another kid of mine that will be getting grommets, methinks.

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