Yeah, she was way better than average. The audiologist lady said she had the best hearing she had seen in a long time.
Seporah and I went to take a hearing test for her today, and it was really interesting. First of all, I went to the wrong hospital. I was told to go to Kapiolani Medical Center because Tripler didn’t have the capacity to take care of everyone and Märia set up and appointment and gave me the suite number and everything. So I show up, on the second floor like I was told, and there is audiology, right where it was supposed to be… except I was at the wrong hospital! Apparently there are like 5 Kapiolani Hospitals on the island and I was at the wrong one. I was at the “main” one, the largest, but not the right one.
So I had to call Tricare (military insurance) and cancel the other referral/appointment and get a new referral/appointment at the new hospital, as I couldn’t make it to the other place in time. After a half hour on the phone with different people and robots, it was all taken care of.
Märia and I had wondered how they were going to test our very active and not very verbal 3 year old’s hearing. Well, it was flippin awesome! They made it into a game for Seporah, and Seporah loved it. They had this little machine, like a box the size of a cash register, with a little metal part that stuck out and looked like a really big coin return, or maybe like it came off a vending machine. So we went into a sound proof room with this machine, and they asked me to show Seporah how to put her hand on this star on the front of the machine when the room beeped. Otherwise she had to keep her hands on the table in front of the machine. When the room beeped, Seporah put her hand on the star and a toy popped out of the machine. She then was to put the toy in a cup off to the side. Seporah loved it, and got the game almost instantly.
So as soon as they knew she got the game, they put the normal ear testing head phones on her, and she got to play the game with all the tones, high and low and so forth. She apparently scored better than normal, and close to perfect. Seporah was totally good the whole appointment long. She let the audiologist look into her ear and put sensors in her ear that had to stay there for minutes at a time. She never threw a fit or gave any of us any trouble. She was a very good girl. =)
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Any way, congrats on Seporah’s hearing test. She comes from good genes so I suspected as much. I figure since life in Hawaii is so prefect, she has no reason to talk. Great parents doing everything right makes life that much easier…keep up the good work!
Love Grandpa, Russ
XOXOXO to my grandkids!
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Yea, on to the next step, getting her to talk! WE love our speech therapist! You will love yours too!!!! Yea for speech therapists!!!!!