Zack & Janice went for their Pre-ops at the California Ear Institute. Next Tuesday (July 15th) they are each having an operation to improve their hearing.
For Zack the operation simply put will be to have his middle ear rebuilt with a prosthesis to replace a bone which was damaged years ago when he had a Cholesteatoma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesteatoma. Although he had this same operation back in the UK and it was unsuccessful we have high hopes for success this time as techniques have advanced substantially over the last few years.
Janice (mum) has Ostosclerosis and is having a Stapedectomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stapedectomy which will hopefully restore some of her conductive hearing loss. Katrina Stidham will be doing both of their operations in succession.
Today was a hot day with highs of 112F. We decided to go swimming and had great fun splashing around and cooling down! Phil, Zack & Greg made a people tower and managed to scare almost everyone else to the edges of the pool. Kai wanted to make a tower too - but we decided that it was probably safer if he just sat on my shoulders!
We came back home and had great fun as Kai has learned to use a hosepipe. He soaked us all and got quite soaked himself in the process.
Kai went to bed really well - we have hopes of a good night's sleep tonight!!!!
1 comment:
Stop it, your all having too much fun without me. I knew you take my title of Queen of the Blogs, how did you get my blog on the side of yours......
Claire x
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