Whew….

Conor had his appointment yesterday with the audiologist and everything is fine.  Fine!  FINE!!!!  The scoop is that these OAE tests are very sensitive, but for a good reason.  They are likely to give back false positives (saying there is a problem when there is not) but never give back false negatives (saying there is NOT a problem when there is).  My interpretation is that it’s much better to worry a parent needlessly than to let a child with real hearing problems slip through the cracks.  Don’t you agree??  We go back in 6 months, JIK, but the doc says he’s never seen the test go negative again.

The whole hearing test was fun.  We sat in a sound booth first and listened to different sounds coming out from opposite sides of the walls.  When Conor looked at the sounds, a small stuffed cow flashed on the left and a small stuffed pig snorted on the right.  Actually, every time the cow flashed her utters at us, the pig would just start snorting on his own.  Haha!  Yeah, ok, not really.  But personally, I thought the snorting pig was more interesting than the flashing cow. 

The audiologist said Conor did just fine looking at all the flashing and snorting and the only times he didn’t look (which worried me, there were a few) was because a one year old gets bored and not because he didn’t hear them.  Cool stuff, eh?

I am so glad we followed up on that test!  Thanks for all the support via email and comments asking about his test. 

Time to focus and check some things of my list.  Or never get tenure.  One of the two. 

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