Well some of you may remember my posts about my son and all the what if's surrounding him. Possible, add, auditory processing, sensory? I just took the plunge and now I feel relieved. Of course he has not seen ds yet. It was just me and dh today. Who I have to say was a trooper. Considering the cost of the visit and his perception that there is nothing wrong. He went along with it anyway. The next step is he will look over his school records and medical records. I like the fact he will be checking up on the school to make sure they have been doing there job. Which I suspect has not happened. On an interesting side note. My ds ws diagnosed as a severe deficit in his left ear at high decibels. This just happened a couple of weeks ago. They don't really think it has effected him but they don't know. They are trying auditory trainer right now to see if it helps. Hearing aids will not. We still have to follow up with his ped in 2 weeks about it. Because they said it was nerve damage. They will have to make sure nothing is causing it. This could be the cause of some of his problems. This seems like a simple solution. I wouldn't be disappointed to find out this is all it was. So I guess I am happy and scared. They could come back and tell me, I don't know I can't think of the worst thing. I just hope that it's fixable. If that makes any sense. Or we can at least work with it and help him do his best. That is all I want.

By Ginny~moderator on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 06:27 am:

Glad you are starting this process. And kudos to dh for not only going along, but participating fully, given his feelings. Keep us posted on what is happening.

By Lauram on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 08:29 am:

OH- I know what you mean about your dh! Mine was the same. It's very hard to accept that something may be *wrong* with your child. My dh was in denial for YEARS and then started to blame me (the next stage of the grief process). He's probably mostly at acceptance at this stage (5 years later!) with a hint of denial thrown in at times. Information is power, though. THat's my theory. Good luck sorting it all out!