I took Quincy to an Audiologist and an ENT to follow up on a couple of failed hearing tests that were done at school earlier this year.
The Audiologist was great and spent about an hour doing different types of hearing tests with Quincy and made everything a game for her. Quincy loved it. The tests revealed that Quincy has hearing loss in her right ear. Luckily, the tests and ENT confirmed that the cause is fluid that has been in her middle ear space for months and a big bad ear infection.
I was initially a little frustrated tgat we dropped a fortune on an audiologist and ENT only to discover that it is just fluid causing the hearing loss, which would've been caught by our pediatrician if the school had sent us there instead of insisting on Audiology. But after thinking about it, I am really just grateful. Considering all of the potential causes for hearibg loss, an ear infection is the best case scenario for my daughter as hopefully, it can just be cleared up with some strong antibiotics, and we likely would have ended up at the ENT anyway, so it's more like we were able to skip a step.
We will go back for more tests in a couple of weeks to determine whether or not tubes for her right ear are necessary. When we told the new ENT Quincy's history with ear infections as an infant and toddler, and if our account with the ENT we met with a few years ago, she was really concerned and said she never should've gone so long without a referral to an ENT. We still feel good about our decision to not get tubes a few years ago, but we will definitely go that route if it is necessary this time.
In the meantime, the school has moved Quincy's desk to the front of the classroom so she can see and hear instructions more clearly, and I am praying that the antibiotics are enough to do clear up the infection.
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