Well, it's a new day...kinda redundant isn't it? Everyday is a new day. Anyway, I am feeling blah today---busy and bored all at the same time. We are getting central air installed this week, our dog (who we just paid 2500 dollars to have tumors removed and teeth cleaned) seems to have another tumor growing under the skin near his front right leg, my son has multiple appointments coming up and 1 I am not so looking forward to. I am conflicted...he may or may not have hearing loss in one ear, he may or may not need a hearing aid, he does have some speech articulation issues but we are dealing with those through speech therapy and we are working with him in his articulation of words that cause him problems. I am not at all totally convinced that Jack has any hearing disability---I truly think it is his tongue that is causing the articulation issue. More improtantly, I think his tongue is not working properly because I let him use a binky---and for much too long. He is 3.5 and he still has it. Let's face it, I am an enabler. He loves that stupid thing and I can't help but keep giving in and letting him have it. My DH is sure that it is not the problem since our daughter also had a binky until she was almost 4 and she speaks perfectly fine...always been advanced in her speaking in fact. One of her first words was mississippi. Anyway, we have that hearing aid appointment and I wonder, if they give me the choice will I say yeah, lets fit him or just say lets wait. His speech is markedly improving---everyone thinks so too. I want someone to tell me that this test or that result is 100 percent accurate. Right now the test we had done that would have been most accurate was SO wrong that even the ENT thought it was either technician error or the computer tracking the results was broken. SO, we now have a CT scan, blood work and this hearing aid evaluation to help guide us in the decision. I will not let Jack go without help, but I am not convinced that putting hearing aids on his ears will be the end all be all for him. I hope that whoever does the hearing aid evaluation will listen to my concerns and be aware that Jack is a very unique and spirited little boy and he is not one to sit still and may not cooperate fully---but that doesn't mean he is hearing impaired or ADHD or whatever other label they want to give him that day. Can't he just be a normal active boy. Hopefully we will get some answers in the next few weeks, we started this journey last November and truly we are nowhere further than we were then.