Update: Ears and Eyes

Ears:

This morning we had a appointment at Australian Hearing to get new moulds taken and new hearing aids as one of Ellies hearing aids ended up in the wash. I mentioned that Ellie hadnt been responding as well with her aids over the last few month and asked if her new hearing aids settings could be adjusted to make them louder for Ellie. We also discussed Ellies hearing test results, from her hearing test at the Royal Childrens Hospital last week. In this test and also in the last test Ellies hearing loss is coming up as severe...

Which was a surprise to me as I thought she was in the mild - moderate catergory. They suggested a different type and brand of hearing aid, as the ones that Ellie had, do not have enough power for a severe hearing loss and could not be made louder. So...... we are getting new types of hearing aids.... They said that Ellie will really notice a difference with them.... We get them on 1 March

Eyes:

This afternoon we had an appointment with Ellies Ocularist. This is a lovely french man that makes Ellies glass eye. As it has been 6 months since Ellie got her last glass eye, he wanted to see her to see if there was the possiblity of making another one, a bigger one. His thoughts were that he would have to put her under GA to take a mould to see exactly how much more room was in her eye socket. However with saying that, he also said that if there was more room, there wouldnt be alot more room than what there is now... So wouldnt suggest putting her under a GA. His thoughts were that we should go back to see one of Ellies other specilists, her eye surgeon.

He wanted us to discuss with him the below points and get his thoughts:

• Do we get another eye expander from Germany? Ellie has had this before to create more room in her eye socket
• Chat about cranial facial surgery (As not only is Ellies eye socket smaller, her bone structure around her right eye is smaller and flatter) Is this an option yet?
• Create a long term plan for Ellie with the goal being to get Ellies face as symetrical as possible.

We have an appointment with Ellies eye surgeon on the 10 March to discuss these points and work out the next step for Ellie