Lily is binaural now (sorf of)...

Last Monday, Lily finally got her second hearing aid for her right ear. After somehow traveling to Brazil and back, the hearing aid arrived after a long wait. It is set to the maximum level and it has very loud feedback when not in Lily's ear. Her reaction has been hard to gauge (mostly because she has barely worn it but that is another story..). Lily's new audiologist says that because the neural pathways on the right side are not as developed as on her left side and that it possibly just sounds like a "bunch of junk" to her on her right side (can you tell we live in the South from the audiologist's quote?). The reason that we have had not much time with both aids in her ear yet is because as soon as we got in the car after her appointment, Lily ripped out both aids and threw them down to the floor of the car. We then picked up Charlotte from a friend's house. Charlotte was curious about Lily's new hearing aid so she picked it off of the floor to check it out (she had been the one to pick out pink with sparkles for Lily's new earmolds and she wanted to see how they tunred out). Lily freaked out when Charlotte picked up her hearing aids and ripped them out of Charlotte's hands. She then proceeded to separate every piece of the hearing aids from each other and throw them all aound the car. It happened in seconds. I found all the pieces except for one very essential part of her new aid. So Monday we will get the missing piece and I will make sure to grab the hearing aids as soon as she takes them out of her ear....

Here is a website created by a family with a little girl who was born profoundly deaf and now has a cochlear implant. Her family is currently pursuing a second implant for their daughter. Anyway, it is an interesting account of their journey:
http://www.laneyjane.com/