Poor Jesse

I've noticed for a while that Jesse wasn't hearing the things he should be hearing. Such as Darren's voice coming out loudly from the phone so that I could hear it but Jesse, whose ear was right next to it couldn't--that was disturbing. Then on Thursday, he failed his hearing test at school. Conveniently we had a doctor's appointment scheduled for him that afternoon since I had been concerned about his hearing, even though I knew it could all come down to earwax or fluid building up in his ears since he had been sick and looked sickly pale for a couple of weeks. (Now, who hasn't experienced their child not hearing them sometimes when you talk to them? It is common but Jesse's seemed to come and go.) The doctor found no earwax but we were back to the doctor's again yesterday following a miserable day in which he complained about lots of ear pain. ( Some things have been entertaining during this hearing loss time, but I was starting to freak out. For example, when one of our CA guests asked J how he was, he said "Oh she's at school." Then D said, "Come here and sit down for lunch" and he said "What?! We're going to In 'n" Out Burger?! with excitement. But the big doozy was when I tucked him into bed and turned the music on, on the dresser beside his head, and as I walked out he said naively, "Oh mom, you forgot the music!") Anyways, the doctor yesterday pacified some of my fears saying that fluid build up in the eardrum is actually the number one reason why kids fail hearing tests, and she saw a whole bunch of it receding in his ear drum.