Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 8am
Mommy and Daddy, and I all went to Virginia Mason in Seattle to meet with a new Audiologist, Miss Stacey and a new Surgeon, Dr. Backous. I've never been to this place before, but everyone smiles at me and makes me feel happy to be here. I get to ride in a big elevator waaaaaaay up 10 floors!
Miss Stacey is sooo kind to me and lets me play with all her toys. She has an ENTIRE box full of stickers and I get to take as many as I want and dump them all over the floor!
Here's a picture of Miss Stacey Watson:
Mommy and Daddy are filled with smiles, so I know Miss Stacey is telling them really good things. Miss Stacey goes through all the pages in the book that Mommy keeps all my medical records in, and they talk and talk and talk and talk about how I am doing. B..o..r..i..n..g. Where's the snacks????
They take me into the sound booth and I do one more of those tests where they make a bunch of beeps and I turn my head when I notice it. Miss Stacey is magic. She can even make a tweety bird dance when I look the right direction. They have fun toys and I notice the beeps sometimes which leads to an Elephant dancing or the monkey beating on his drums. My favorite is definitely the Tweety Bird though. I keep signing "bird", so Miss Stacey will know that I want her to use her magic on that toy most!!
We finish with those toys and then go back to Miss Stacey's room. More sticker-dumping. YEAH!!! That's fun. Next, Miss Stacey gets a big briefcase and takes out these weird metal things and hands them to Mommy and Daddy. Mommy starts crying. Grown ups are so silly. It's just that Cochlear Implant stuff. We've seen it all before. One piece goes inside and one piece goes outside. They stick together with a magnet and they help me hear. Hmm--who knew that in one visit, after reviewing my records and giving me that one test, Miss Stacey would tell Mommy and Daddy that her team will definitely help me receive my Cochlear Implant. All the grown-ups look at, touch, assemble and take apart these weird things for a while so Mommy and Daddy can think---For the very FIRST time about the reality of me getting one of these implants. More tears from Mommy when Miss Stacey thinks they can help us when their schedule clears up, in early June.
We leave Miss Stacey's office and I keep Daddy busy running after me all over the place. I make sure and smile at all the other people in the area, but Mommy keeps making me put my dress down. I like to lift it up and show my tummy off. My family makes such a big deal about my tummy--shouldn't everyone get to see it? This place is fun.
Mommy calls it the Learning for Life Center at Virginia Mason. We clicked on these letters and we got to read all about them:
https://www.virginiamason.org/home/dept.cfm?id=406
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