Last Halloween, a dear friend of mine who goes all out when decorating for Halloween offered to have Ammon come to her house to help put up Halloween decorations as a reward for wearing his hearing aids consistently. It was a great plan as Ammon LOVES Halloween and loves to decorate.
Flash forward to this year and more specifically tonight at bedtime. Halloween is only a few days away but things are a little different now. Ammon thought that his hearing aid batteries were all gone as the ones in the case he has been using have all been used. I thought we had more but since I wasn't sure where they were, we told Ammon that we would get some hearing aid batteries first thing tomorrow morning. That brought on much anxiety for Ammon along with some weeping and wailing. He told us in no uncertain terms that he could not wait until morning to get his batteries because if the battery currently in his hearing aid went dead, he would not be able to hear when he got up. Nothing we could say would console him. He wanted hearing aid batteries and he wanted them now. He was really upset so I told him to go lay down on his bed and I would look in one more place that could have batteries. That place was my purse. Mom's purses are equipped with all sorts of life saving devices. I walked back to Ammon on the bed and showed him the case full of batteries from my purse. It is difficult to have a conversation with your deaf child in the dark when their implants and hearing aids are off, but I could see that he was visibly relieved and would now be able to settle down enough to sleep.
What an amazing turn of events. Last year I was bribing Ammon to wear his hearing aids and tonight he could not rest until he knew he would not have to go without them even for a few minutes in the morning. Our boy likes to hear and he now sees that his hearing aid is a vital part of that process.
No comments:
Post a Comment