Hearing?

It's really hard not letting a 3 1/2 year old boy run, jump, twirl around, skip, ride a bike, go to the park... but we are doing our best to distract him with other things. We have been doing lots of crafts, games, reading books, watching shows, doing puzzles... It's so sad because about 3 weeks before surgery he started doing somersaults, which he was actually getting really good at. He's been a trooper though. I can't wait until the day we take him to the park and say "Go Brennan... have at it!"

I've been wrapping his head at night so I can sleep better at night :) Technically, it makes me worry less about B grabbing at his ear or itching his skin graft site while sleeping. It seems to be working so far. He is doing so good with that too. He just sits there while I wrap it and knows it will come off first thing in the morning.

A question that we are getting that is most common: Can he hear better?

Well, we won't know the exact results until 5 more weeks. Right now he still has a bunch of packing in it that might be blocking sound in his ear. He will have a hearing test in 5 weeks to determine how his left ear responds to sounds. We are very excited to find out! However, we are noticing B responding to certain sounds more now than he did before, which is really cool!!!

Thanks for your prayers as the recovery stage continues!