Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Trip to the Hearing and ENT doc

Real quickly I wanted to jot down some things we found out about Keenan yesterday. Keenan is having a hard time with his speech and not communicating very well. He was evaluated for speech about a month ago and he is a year behind. First things first, we took him to the hearing and balance center and he failed all his hearing tests. He failed because he has fluid behind his ears. So we went upstairs to the Ear Nose and Throat specialist, and he has fluid that has been there a while, so antibiotics won't clear it. He also has really big tonsils. On a scale of 0-4, 0 being small, and 4 large, he is at a 3. So we have an appt. May 20th, to remove tonsils, adnoids, and put tubes in his ears. The DR said imagine trying to pick up on words when your hearing a muffled sound all the time. So maybe some answers? We hope so!

3 comments:

Mike, Sha, Kenna, Kate, & Garrett said...

My best friends little guy had this same problem. After getting it fixed his speech improved a whole year in 6 months time. Good luck!

Candace and Brian said...

Oh man. Good luck! I know so many people who tubes improved speech. That's a lot of things for a little guy to go through though.

Anonymous said...

Wow! Glad you found that out and can hopefully get it resolved. Hope your run goes well tomorrow!