Well, just in case you’ve been on the edge of your seat since my last post, Coach Taylor is back in Dillon and Jason decided he wouldn’t have the controversial stem cell shot in Mexico on Friday Night Lights…and by the way….the season I’m on is from 2007, so I’m totally Read More
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To clarify
August 26th, 2010 by Our blog...
Our original plan was to schedule surgery and then cancel if we needed to. I didn’t have a peace about it all hanging in the air, so we made a decision based on a lot of different things. I thought I might need to clarify how we came to the decision to go ahead with the Cochlear Implants (CI). Read More
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Decisions
August 18th, 2010 by Our blog...
I got the phone call at about 6:00 tonight. The phone call where our speech therapist, Wendy, was going to tell us what they had decided in staff meeting. By the way, Wendy, called me from her cell phone on the way home because she knew I wanted to know about the meeting. She is awesome. We Read More
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I am not above bribery
August 17th, 2010 by Our blog...
It’s Tuesday which means it’s soccer day. That wouldn’t be such a bad thing if I knew C was going to go out there, try his hardest, and have fun. However, you remember, C is a bit dramatic when he can’t do something perfectly the FIRST time. I picked him up from school, we went to a Read More
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Pros and Cons
August 16th, 2010 by Our blog...
Today was the therapy session where we hashed out all the pros and cons of implants vs. no implants. I can’t tell you what the final outcome will be because at this moment, I have no idea. Wendy and Emily (our therapist and audiologist) will be going to bat for our family Wednesday at their Read More
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Lately
August 15th, 2010 by Our blog...
★ This week was the boy’s first week of school. They did really well. JL goes 3 times per week and C goes every day. By the end of the week C was asking why he had to go EVERY DAY?!? He loves it though. He loves Mrs. M! When I picked him up Friday he had learned the pledge of Read More
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Booth Test Results
August 12th, 2010 by Our blog...
We’ve been playing the waiting game for a couple of months now. I just looked over some past blog posts to see what EK’s progress had been like within the past few months. It confirmed my thought that she was progressing a lot more than she is now. She’s still saying a lot of “ahhh.” Read More
Posted in Audiology, Cochlear Implant, Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
Therapy with Miss EK
August 11th, 2010 by Our blog...
Monday was EK’s regular therapy appt. GG and GD kept the boys while I took EK to Birmingham. The therapy session went well. W, our auditory verbal therapist, and I discussed how EK hasn’t started mimicking any sounds yet. We do a letter every 2 weeks. Last week was “m,” so we’d Read More
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I have a lot to write and I don’t know where to start
July 14th, 2010 by Our blog...
I don’t know where the structure has gone in my life. I was enjoying the easy breezy fly by the seat of my pants me, but think I’m in need of a little more structure….mainly because I haven’t cooked in approximately 3 weeks, and I’ve eaten about 17 peanut butter and honey Read More
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How to keep your munchkin’s hearing aids on
July 13th, 2010 by Our blog...
Hey bloggy friends! If you’re reading our blog because you’re in the same hearing impaired boat we’re in, I put a link at the top of our website to help you find hearing aid accessories. There I’ve listed all the accessories we’ve ever used to help Ella Kate keep her hearing aids in Read More
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Seven
June 14th, 2010 by Our blog...
It’s been 7 years. In some ways it seems like Jeb and I have been together forever. In some ways it seems like time has flown by. In the past 7 years we’ve had a few ups and downs. I cannot imagine going through them with anyone else but Jeb. He’s my best friend. He’s seen me at my best Read More
Posted in Hearing Loss, Non-Deaf/HOH Topic |
Catch up
June 11th, 2010 by Our blog...
• I had my recurring dream again about how Jeb doesn’t like me. In my dream I was begging him to like me. I kept saying, what if we’re friends for a while…don’t you think you could like me? He kept saying NO! After I told Jeb about my dream he said, “Why can’t you have recurring Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid, Non-Deaf/HOH Topic |
It’s a hearing aid miracle
June 11th, 2010 by Our blog...
I’m getting a little behind in bloggy world. Apparently we’re busier here or the kids aren’t taking naps or something. I haven’t been watching TV, playing on the internet, reading, or blogging. I’m not sure where my time is going other than to cleaning and chasing 3 munchkins. So, Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
EK’s visits this week
May 4th, 2010 by Our blog...
I’m tired, so I’m just going to give the facts…mainly so I can remember it in a month, or tomorrow, or 5 minutes from now. Physical Therapy – EK is about a month behind right now. She should be able to transition from sitting to laying and vice versa. This is a hard skill to Read More
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Miss Priss (Warning to Lori-the end is about moving) :-)
April 21st, 2010 by Our blog...
Sweet little Ella Kate turned 9 months old a few days ago. We took her to her check up yesterday, and get this…she’s in the 95th percentile for height. Have you seen Jeb or I? We have no clue how she’s so long, well except my papaw is over 6’, my dad is 6’ (He’d tell you he used Read More
Posted in AVT, Auditory/Oral, Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss, Speech |
Less than a month here?
April 15th, 2010 by Our blog...
We received an offer on our house on Monday. Tuesday night and Wednesday night we’ve been up till 11 PM-ish trying to finalize our counter offers. Right now we’re trying to finalize $2000 and our refrigerator. She still has to get pre-approved, so I guess this could all fall apart there Read More
Posted in AVT, Hearing Loss, Non-Deaf/HOH Topic |
Amazing and Miraculous Progress
April 6th, 2010 by Our blog...
Yesterday and today Jeb, EK, and I spent time in Birmingham going to therapy/booth test appointments. Yesterday was her regular speech therapy. She did really well in it. She’s turning to sounds a good portion of the time. We’re doing “Ling 6 Sounds” with her which is ah, ee, oo, mm, sh, Read More
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Various and a sundry updates
April 2nd, 2010 by Our blog...
• Caden: Mom! Oh my goodness, look at what’s in this egg! This is soooo cool! Me: Wow Caden, what is it? Caden: I haven’t the foggiest. Wow, that kid cracks me up. • JL: I need poo poo Mom. Me: Ok, let’s go to the potty. JL: No, ewe weave Mom. Shut doe. (translation: you leave, shut the Read More
Posted in Audiology, Cochlear Implant, Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
Up in the air
March 23rd, 2010 by Our blog...
So, we’re at Publix today and the bag guy, we’ll call him “Brent,” asked if we needed help out. I declined the first time, but when I realized I was carrying a baby, had a 2 year old in the cart, and a 4 year old walking, I decided it was insane of me to decline, so I accepted his offer Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
just a regular week
March 10th, 2010 by Our blog...
• I’ve spent a good portion of yesterday combining our three blogs we’ve had into this one blog…twice. I did it yesterday, then I accidentally deleted it today and had to do it again. I’m so excited to have all of our memories in one place now! • We went to therapy Monday with Read More
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Explaining something I don’t understand so well myself
February 23rd, 2010 by Our blog...
I will attempt to explain what’s going on with Ella Kate, cochlear implants, hearing aids, and booth testing. We had our first cochlear implant counseling session yesterday. Our AVT (auditory verbal therapist) plotted EK’s responses onto the audiogram (the results from the last booth test). Read More
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MRI today
February 18th, 2010 by Our blog...
Today we’re taking EK to get an MRI done on her brain. This test will show if she has all the correct anatomy to have cochlear implants in the future. Although we see signs of everything being okay at home, I still am nervous to have to see the answer on the test results. More often than not in Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Hearing Loss |
Latest on EK
February 15th, 2010 by Our blog...
As I sit here, EK is waking up from her 15 minute nap. Seriously, this kid takes these power naps and is good to go. I don’t get it. She goes to bed for the night at about 9 or 9:30 and sleeps till 7, so that’s a major blessing (well, the sleeping till 7…not so much the going to bed Read More
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Really, I’m not strong
February 5th, 2010 by Our blog...
Every time I look back at pictures of when EK was born I think of all the emotions I was feeling then, and it makes me sad. It makes me sad that it makes me sad. That’s a whole lot of sad. I remember right after she was born and the fear of having 3 kids! Then I remember like it was Read More
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Small genius? I think so.
February 3rd, 2010 by Our blog...
Caden loves to do workbooks. I bought him a few at the dollar tree today when we were out on our morning errands. When we got home from running around town, they got to play outside, eat lunch outside, make valentines, make cupcakes, and decorate cupcakes. After we finished that, Caden and I Read More
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Really I just need to take my medicine
January 28th, 2010 by Our blog...
So my CBC and my thyroid tests came back normal today. Jeb asked me last night if I’d been taking my medicine like I was supposed to. Of course, I hadn’t been. I’m not so good with taking medicine. I forget. I really need to take the advice of the Imagination Movers, “take take take Read More
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Anemia, Dehydration, Sleep Deprivation, Thyroid Conditions, & Pregnancy
January 27th, 2010 by Our blog...
I feel like I’ve been hit by a Land Rover, not as bad as a Mack Truck, but not as good as say, a VW Bug. ) I’m not sure what’s going on. I’ve been having some light headedness, head rushes, head aches, nausea, and fatigue. I’m about 10 kinds of certain that I’m not Read More
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Sleeping on the Sabbath
January 24th, 2010 by Our blog...
I was absolutely exhausted today. I took a nap. It was nice. I actually let the boys sleep till they woke up, which ended up being about 2 1/2 hours. Hope they go to bed tonight. I’m pretty sure I slept about an hour-ish. I feel pretty good right now. I’m pretty sure God knew what He was Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss, Non-Deaf/HOH Topic |
Ella Kate’s Booth Test
January 22nd, 2010 by Our blog...
EK had her first booth test Tuesday. The photo above was “borrowed” from another website. It is not the booth she was in. It does give you an idea of what it looked like though. We went into the sound proof room. EK, me, and someone who was supposed to try to keep EK focused by showing her Read More
Posted in Audiology, Hearing Loss |
Happenings of the day
January 8th, 2010 by Our blog...
So, complaining is over. Here’s the fun stuff from today. Ella Kate started holding things in both of her hands at the same time!! I think this is probably a milestone she was supposed to meet a while ago, but we just started working with her on opening her hands more. She is doing SO well!! I Read More
