Home Again, Home Again

Thanks for the prayers, family and friends. Kendyll did great, and is at home resting. I have now been "mommy of a patient" at that ENT surgery center 5 times. Hopefully, that was the last one. :)

And, now that we're home, we're planning to spend the rest of our morning just "mommy and Kendyll". We got to have a slumber party together last night, since daddy's out of town and the sisters were at grandma's. She slept in my room on a pallet, and we had a late night movie and popcorn, since she couldn't eat this morning. It was fun to spend the night with JUST her---I don't think we've done that EVER!

Then, today, she got to pick what she wanted to do before we go to pick up the sisters. Her plan is to go to Celebrity Bakery (our favorite girly place nearby) and to get pedicures! So, this "tubes" thing worked out pretty well for her, I would say! :)

And, here's a side note, especially for our family, who has seen how SAD it is that Kendyll can't hear. She has literally not been able to hear anything at normal talking volume in a few months. Her music and TV has had to be at an amazingly loud level just to be heard by this girl. And, it had become so sad to watch her try so hard to hear, that she would even pretend that she heard you, and answer whatever she THOUGHT you might have said. It broke my heart.

Anyway, the doctor said today that her ears were awfully full of mucus and that we will probably see a huge difference in her hearing even today. He said he often hears stories of these kiddos being so sensitive to sound that they notice a door creak or a sound outside the house.

Well, she's already done that, and we've been home 30 minutes. She is laying in my bedroom resting, and she called me in the room to ask me "what that sound was". I stopped and listened and couldn't hear a thing. She said "it's like beeping". So, I listened closer....and it was Abby Kate's sound monitor across the house IN THE KITCHEN!!! It was obviously searching for a signal, because it was just letting out a series of small beeps. I just started laughing and told her what good news it was to know she was hearing that well. She smiled and said "Wow! I really CAN hear good, Mom!"

So, we're glad to have instant results. :)

And, by the way, it's pretty fun having Kendyll on loopy medicine too....her smiles are so big, and her laugh is so deep. It's precious. Seriously, how do you bottle that stuff for home?!