Posts Tagged ‘cream’
The Audiologist
As I said in my last post, Madison failed the preschool hearing test. I never there was a chance of that, and I found myself a lot more upset about it than I thought it would be. I ended up Twittering about it, and a lot of the awesome people on there made me feel a lot better about it.
We lucked out and were able to get her in today to get her hearing tested. I was a little nervous, but she had a blast doing it. They did several cool things. First, they tested to see if she had fluid in her ears. They put a thing in her ear, and we watched a screen. If it looked like a pancake when the tone sounded, she had fluid in her ears. If it looked like a mountain, she didn’t. We saw two mountains (one for each ear). Then they did a test to check her middle ear, and she passed that. Lastly, they tested her manually. They put in earplug looking things in her ears, and the audiologist went into a different room and talked to Madison over it. She said words like carports, baseball, and ice cream, and Madison had to repeat the word. The audiologist told her she did a good job to which she replied that “she practices a lot”. I am not sure what she practices, but it was pretty funny. After she repeated the words, they then did a test with tones. If she heard the tone, she had to clap. They then did the word test again. Then they did a last test with some earphone looking thing. When she heard the beep, she had to say Beep.
The good news is that she passed! On a scale of 0 – 20 being normal, she scored 5s on most things. She did get 15 on 800 mhz stuff (it could be 8,000 I don’t remember). That is still in the normal range, but I could hear when she was missing words, so it is something I will keep an eye on. Their recommendation was just to keep an eye on it, but she was completely normal. Woohooo!!!!
3 Comments »
Izeafest: Night 3 – IzeaHunt
I would like to say that I was sober for the entire time I was at Izeafest. I ended up as the driver 2 out of the 3 nights, and I really don’t believe in drunk driving. That being said I did do the IzeaHunt without anything alcohol in me. We had to do a ton of wild and crazy things. What was at stake? A $100 gift card for Home Depot for all of us. When money is on the line, well, you do crazy things. Honestly I wish I would have brought some other outdoor clothing with. My clothes were almost destroyed from this scavenger hunt. It took several washings once I got home to get the shaving cream and chocolate sauce out!
For some reason, I cannot find my team photos on Flickr at all. What I will do is show you some of the other teams instead. You will see how crazy this really did get:
Ohh I take that back, I did find one and you can’t see me (yeah! — I’m in the blue shirt):
Ok, we had to do crazy things like take a picture with a 6’5″ person, make a human sundae, get pineapple and a potato, walk somebody else’s dog, etc. There was 4 pages of things, and we only had about an hour to try and do as much as we could. One of the more crazy things we had to do was find a toilet seat and bring it back. I think Ted was the only one who was able to do that! Unfortunately, my team did not win. However, it was still a ton of fun!
After the hunt was over, we all took a break, sat down, talked, and ate some great food. I was able to sit down and talk to Cass and Sean Jackson. It was hard to believe that I was going to be hopping on a plane the next morning and heading back home (what I didn’t know at this time was that Chicago had gotten record levels of rain and my yard was literally a swimming pool. The water in my yard was up to my knees!). We were able to compare notes and just enjoy ourselves.
4 Comments »
