Caleb's Ear Surgery & Hearing

Caleb had his ear surgery on July 2nd for tubes that were inserted into his perforated ear drums to drain the excessive fluids that never otherwise seemed to reduce by itself. Although we felt pain watching Caleb being taken away by the nursing staff prior to his surgery and afterwards when he cried for an hour, the surgery was actually successful. Our appointment for his post-audio test will tell us how much hearing Caleb now has since the diagnosed 55 dB hard-of-hearing level prior to surgery. Caleb had been temporarily hard-of-hearing all year, so we are thankful we did not let his language get delayed if he had been exposed only to speech. With signed language exposure, Caleb is advanced linguistically for his age, that it doesn't matter how much he can hear, in regards to his language development.