Sarah's Hearing

This has been quite the journey for our sweet, little Sarah.  For those that have followed the blog you'll remember the ride we have been on with Sarah and her hearing.  If not, you can catch up here, here and here.  

Ever since we moved to Utah in December of 2014 we were planning on getting Sarah checked out with her hearing.  But 2015 was definitely not an easy year for our family and we were never able to get her seen due to insurance issues.  

Now that we are finally settled in Idaho Falls we have been doing all sorts of doctor and dental visits and we finally were able to get Sarah into an audiologist today.  

I wasn't really sure how the appointment was going to go.  In the past they were very long (usually three hours) and Sarah needed to be sleeping or at least "at rest".  Sarah is a very active little girl and I wasn't sure how they were going to perform the tests.  She did amazingly well.  Mark is in town and so we were both able to go (and Jacob was able to go play with a friend which was so helpful!).  

Sarah is seriously the sweetest little thing.  I could gush about this little one all day.  We were so hoping and praying that after this appointment we could finally end all of this.  However, after performing all of the tests (which Sarah sat so patiently on Mark's lap the entire time!) we had some happy/sad conclusions.  

Sarah does have some mild hearing loss in both ears.  This was hard to hear for Mark and I.  The good news is that they believe it can be fixed and there doesn't appear to be anything structurally wrong with her ears that would indicate the need for hearing aids.  There is still quite a bit of fluid in both of her ears which the audiologist believes once removed (with tubes) should allow her to hear completely.  

So the next step is that we will be meeting with an ENT and, most likely, schedule a surgery for tubes to get put in her ears.  The thought of surgery really scares me (I've never had surgery of any kind before so it is just unknown territory for me) but I know it is very common.  We are so very grateful that there is a solution for her though.  It look like we will have to be on this hearing journey a little longer.  

We love you, sweet girl.