We returned yesterday (October 19th) to Sick Kids so Gina could reprogram his processors. We got to here each pitch that each individual electrode makes and it reminded me of a piano scale. This technology (Nucleus 5) never ceases to amaze me.
Once again, Alex is responding well to beeps and now he is even beginning to show us with his behaviour that he is hearing certain things in his environment. We changed the program in his processors today so he would be at 70% of his hearing.
We also had our first AVT (Auditory Verbal Therapy) session since Al could hear. It went great. Angelina, our therapist would say how smart she thought Alex was when he would concentrate so hard on fitting a heart shaped block into its proper opening. Alex is really smart and figures things out fast. A way he lets us know he hears is that he always looks up at his daddy. He would stop playing and look up thinking it was him or something. When he herd the drum beating behind his head he immediately turned to his dad and made us all laugh.
Near bedtime, Alex was just plain tired of wearing his "ears". He would take one off and right away crawl to me to place it in my hand. It's cool how he knows it's not a toy...again, he is so smart and intuitive. Also, since the program was turned up he is beginning to startle at certain sounds. I was banging his dessert dish against the table and he would blink every time. Crazy! Not even a week ago he was just experiencing sound for the first time and now he is blinking because of it and looking at daddy. I can just imaging the kinds of electric transmissions are taking place in his brain...wow...still amazed.
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