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We took Aaron to get his hearing checked again today.  We’d had his hearing tested when we were living in Fort Dodge and the tests indicated he had slight loss in his hearing.  The doctors felt this was due to fluid in his ears.

This was my first time going with him, and I was really impressed with how good he was.  They did a simplified version of the hearing tests I remember taking.  The woman doing the tests told him to listen in one ear and raise his hand if he heard the beeps.  Once he finished one ear they moved on to the other side.  He was really patient and did exactly as she asked.  When she finished she said Aaron’s hearing in his right ear is bad.  She did another test to see how the ear drums behaved while it is being vibrated.  From these tests she was able to see that Aaron has blockage in his ear canals preventing the drums from vibrating normally. 

As a result she did a final test to see how his hearing would be if the blockage was not there.  This involved two sets of headphones, this was to block the sound in his left ear (the good one) to see how his right ear would compensate.  We were very relieved to hear his hearing will be fine.  Now we’ve just got to get his ears cleared out.