Leg wounds and head wounds are not equal....

As luck would have it, Chance fell off of his scooter a few days ago and got some road rash wounds across his knees and elbows. Now those kind of wounds are very annoying and hurt quite a bit, but you would not think that they would trump a head wound inflicted on you when your head was drilled into......yet that is what has happened at our house. Chance seems to be much more protective of his knee and elbow wounds than of his head. His sister got too close to his knee last night bumping it and causing Chance to cry out in pain. Yet, his head does not seem to even bother him. Go figure.
Chance's head wound is now healed enough that he can put a baseball cap on it alright. This is good since it has been so hot and we don't want his scalp to get sunburned. Chance's head was shaved where the implant was inserted so that particular piece of skin has not seen the sun for a loooong time! Chance is doing so well. We feel very blessed. Even though Chance is using only one hearing aid, and his other ear is healing, he is talking so well. I wondered if going with out one of his aids would really affect his speech. There is some effect, but mostly just that Chance can not hear us as well. We thump on the floor a lot to get his attention around the house if he does not hear us. All of us in the family know that using a deeper voice, makes the probability of Chance hearing us greater. He can hear the lower frequencies better. I am used to doing it now, but I am sure that some of the people around us at stores etc. wonder if I have some sort of disorder as I talk to Chance in a much deeper voice than I do to my other kids sometimes. There is my normal female voice that I use with the other kids, and then the husky, manly voice of my alter ego voice for Chance. This is sometimes the only way that he can hear that I am calling him in crowded places or when there is lots of background noise. It is actually quite hard for Chance to hear us in a noisy store even with two hearing aids. But using the deep voice gives you a prayer that you might be heard. It gives new meaning to the theory that each child is different and needs a different approach to things.