Ian's Hearing Test

Right after Ian had his tubes put in we went up to Billings for a hearing test. We had one of these hearing tests done before in Spokane, WA when we lived in Pullman. It was not a good experience, so I knew this one wasn't going to go well. They tried there best, and it went way better then the first one a couple years ago. Our ENT who put the tubes in contacted us. We made a plan to have him sedated to have a hearing test. This was the only way it was going to happen with Ian. At first I was a little hesitate to do it. I knew we had to though. It was the only thing we could do to know if Ian could hear. If he couldn't hear then it could be our answer to him being non-verbal still. After ABA therapy on the 19th Ian had appointments with a different ENT for a physical, and we met the audiologist that would do the test. Those appointments went great. We had to be in Billings at the surgery center at 6 in the morning, and his procedure was at 7. We had planned originally that Ian and I would just spend the night. Then Matthew was able to take the day off. I was so glad because I needed his help with this. In pre-op they gave Ian some medicine to kind of make him loopy. I loved it because he sat with me and watched cartoons for about 30 minutes before they took him back. I loved having cuddles from my boy. They took him back and everything looked great. It took about an hour for the procedure, and they said his ears looked as good as gold. We were so relieved to hear this. We knew that hearing aids would be a fight with Ian. The only thing that he hated was having the IV in. They wrapped it super well, so he couldn't get it off. We learned from the tube surgery that it's no fun to see Ian come out of anesthesia. We brought the ipad this time. Which helped so much, and he was a happy camper once they got the IV out. Afterwards we headed to Costco, and to lunch with Michael & Emily & kids. We are super excited Ian can hear!