Neonatal Follow-up Clinic
What a day it was. We saw two doctors today, an Audiologist and an Opthomologist. Jonah failed both hearing tests he was given, with the understanding that Jonah was not old enough to have the hearing test, the child has to be at least 6 months of developmental age; and the other, Jonah was not able to hold still and be quiet enough for accurate readings, hence the computer said he failed. We will get the opportunity to repeat these tests in 2-4 months. We do know someone who has a child that the computer said was deaf, but could hear just fine. Onto the opthomologist side of things. . . I am not sure where Jonah gets this, maybe from his mother. Jonah is near sighted in one eye and Far sighted in the other. Oh, boy!!!!! Both eyes have stigmatisms, Jonah will need glasses, but not yet. We will find out more information when we go back in a few months. The optic nerves in Jonah's eyes are pale, caused by the intravicular hemorrhages, aka: Brain Bleeds. This was pretty ha...