Feb- Mar 2011

It's funny. I said in my last blog that Aiden never gets just the sniffles. Well sure enough on Feb 25 we ended up the hospital with the flu/pneumonia for a few days. He was on "lockdown" so to speak and it was hard for him to be couped up. He is such an active little fella. Both sets of grandparents will definitely agree to that! He wears them out :)
After we were released from the hospital we continued with the regiment of breathing treatments, steroids, and antibiotics. Then low and behold 4 weeks later we were right back in the hospital with pneumonia! For having pneumonia, he was much happier this time, he was able to be out of his room and play. He was a big hit with his nurses. I believe mom has competition with his nurse, Miss Elizabeth...he likes her a lot! He is already starting to break hearts :)
In between those 2 hospital stays, we ventured up Jacksonville to the Nemours clinic for his sedated ABR (hearing test)on March 18th. The deal with the sedated ABR was that Aiden was suppose to be "perfectly" healthy. HA! The words perfectly healthy and Aiden are rarely in the same breath, let alone in the same sentence. Mommy and Daddy had to fight for Aiden to be tested. Aiden was starting to come down with the "crud." The anesthesiologist didn"t want to risk sedating him. However, after we were able to convince them for a non-sedated approach. We gave Aiden a little dose of orange nastiness. The nurse said in 20 minutes he will be actng as if he is drunk. Well, 5 minutes after the dose he was out cold. After a short amount of time, the ENT and audiologist emereged with the results. He is not severely/profound as we once thought. He is profoundly deaf in both ears. To me, severely/profound sounds worse than just profound. But that is not the case in terms of deafness. As far as levels go, profound is the most loss of hearing.
Aiden's outer nerve hairs are decent. His inner nerve hairs are damaged. So the ENT thinks cochlear implants will help. We still need to meet with the cochlear implant audiologist for the last step in the process.
Thank you for your continued care, concern and prayers for Aiden and our family. God Bless!