It's been a while since my last post. I`m not at home at the moment, I am in Switzerland on holiday. Enjoying day tripping to different places. We decided to drive here as well. We must be insane...right? well it was an experience. We have the journey home to do yet. Oliver has been okay on the journey here really. A few grumps and tantrums but understandable for a 4 year old kept in a car for hours.
Moving on to the next part of Oliver`s blog. He was given the over the ear hearing aids round Oct/Nov time in 2005. We decided that it would be a great idea to get him a Bumbo...those of you who have children know exactly what I`m talking about. Those of you reading this and are not sure if I have misspelt Bambi or not. Well it`s like a chair for babies who can hold their heads up but can`t quite sit up yet. An amazing invention if you ask me. Well he got one a little early from his aunty Cas for Christmas so he could sit in it with his hearing aids on. Genius! The most annoying part to the over the ear hearing aids was that they would flat around and whistle a lot. For example we would be sat in church in sacrament meeting and you would hear this high pitch whistle and everyone would be looking around and wondering what the noise was, thinking it was the PA system, when in fact it was just Ollie`s hearing aids. They would whistle becasue it meant there was a gap between the molds and the ear and the sound would escape through the gap creating the whistle.
The beauty of having a problem sometimes is when someone finds a solution for it. There is in most cases positives that come from negatives. Our wonderful teacher of the deaf Recommended a cream called Otoform cream. You would have to apply it to the mold each time you put his hearing aids in. It is a little bit tacky so it worked beautifully to seal the gap. So there is my postive from the negative. The same applied to the flapping around of the actual aid itself. As children have quite small ears a hearing aid does not fit beautifully behind the ear so again our teacher of the deaf introduced us to boob tape...no not for me!!!! for the actual aid. We would cut a tiny stip off and stick it to the back of the aid and because boob tape is basically double sided tape. We stuck it to his head...problem solved. Poor boy..no wonder he wanted to flick them out of his ears. He did that for quite a while and he would just flick them out and leave them on the floor or his toy box etc, so I would have a treasure hunt on my hands. Or in the super market he would flick them out on the floor. Just to go off on a tangent. I once had a lady in the super market ask me " What is your baby wearing in his ears...is he listening to music?" oh sure lady I always make my 6 month old wear head phones to the super market. Bless. It made me laugh.
Logging off now...I have the bedtime routine to do...involving dragging him away from the PS3 that Daddy and him are playing. Wish me look. I will write when I can maybe after my hols in a week or so.
