ASSR/ABR Results Arrived

We received the results of Lily's November 1st ABR/ASSR in the mail today (or rather, yesterday, as it is now 1:00am on Friday). The report reads that Lily has a moderate-severe to profound sloping loss in her left ear and a severe-profound loss in her right. Pretty much what we already knew, although I had not realized that her left ear sloped into the range of profound. I never trusted the original audiogram done back in June by Lily's former audiologist (she was the one who missed her chance to tell us how potentially serious Lily's hearing loss was when she was 9 weeks old). I am sure there was some magical thinking on my part that this has all been just a big mistake and that really she is OK. But the ABR/ASSR is performed by a computer and is just about as objective a test as you can get for a small child and it clearly shows Lily is deaf. The projected audiogram from the ABR/ASSR is almost identical to the one Lily had in the soundbooth in June. I also had Lily's current and really wonderful audiologist test her left ear without her hearing aid this past Tuesday. (I also talked about the report written by Dr. White about Lily's testing at UF with Lily's audiologist. I understand it better now since it has been explained and am no longer worried about it.) Once again, there was an almost exact replica of that first audiogram. So now we have 3 different tests saying the same thing and at least there is no room for questioning what is her level of loss. Now we have to wait until we hear from the cochlear implant team. It is up to them to decide if Lily's residual hearing in her left ear is enough for her to get by in life. I don't think it is.