New Hearing Aids & Ear Gear

Cami got her new heating aids last night and the difference is tremendous! She heard a computer mouse 'click' at the audiologists office. She said she never knew it made a sound!

This is one of her 2 new aids with Ear Gear. She really seems to like it. The little orange cord clips to the collar of her shirt (which I like). We certainly don't want these things to get lost or damaged!

Please help bring Jon Paul home

This is our new son, Jon Paul. He is blind and resides in foster care in China. We are currently working to bring him home. Here's how you can help!

Here's how YOU can help bring home Jon Paul!

Click on this link for Kingdom Kids

At the top of the page click on Donations then select Family Grant Donations

Fill out the information and in the box that says designation, fill in our names, Mike & Faye Corman. That way you'll be sure you're donation will go to help fund Jon Paul's adoption.

If you would rather send a check, please mail it to:

Kingdom Kids Adoption Ministry
8625 N Whitehouse Drive
Spokane, WA 99208
USA

Please include a note with the check that the donation is for Jon Paul Corman's adoption fund, but DO NOT include our name on the check!

Kingdom Kids Adoption Ministries is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible in accordance with IRS regulations.

Thank you for your support! Any questions, please feel free to contact Kingdom Kids!

How do you cope?

I don't think I cope. I just live life. It's a wonderful life, actually.

This life was unplanned. I think everyone who lives "unique" lives, live them unplanned. I met my husband, Mike, in a piano bar in 1998. I didn't know he would be my husband when we met. We were friends first. I'll admit I was attracted to him, but his blindness was a definitely a consideration when our relationship reached a serious level. We dated for 4 years before got married. Maybe not a long time if you're really young... but neither of us was really young, not really. We work things out and, for the most part, life is normal; normal for us, at least. Mike does most of the traditionally female duties, laundry (as long as separate the colors from the whites) dishes, etc. and I do more of the male type chores, cut the grass, grill, change the oil. It works. We were already in the process of adopted our visually impaired son (hey, our house is perfectly situated for blind people, we have tons of connections in the blind community and Mike and I even volunteer with an organization that benefits blind children, so why not, right?) when we found out our daughter had progressive, bilateral hearing loss. Cause to stop the adoption? Absolutely not! Not in our minds. We were sad for our daughter. The prognosis hit us hard. But it was the loss of a sense, not a death sentence. And for now, at least, it can be helped with hearing aids.

We say a lot of prayers. I guess you could say that's how we cope. We put our faith in God.

We adopted our 5 year-old, Camille, from China in 2005. She was a "Non-special-needs" adoption. This means we applied for a "healthy" baby, with no particular special need. We were not unaware that international adoption always has unknowns. Our sweet baby came to us at 11 months of age with a multitude of health problems. She was severely malnourished (she weighed barely 13 pounds at 11 months of age) she was physically developmentally delayed (she could not sit up or roll over) and she had a staph infection that required hospitalization. All of these thing, did not prepare us for the adventures that lay ahead.

We found out earlier this year that Camille is hard-of-hearing. Not exactly deaf, but not a "normal" hearing kid either. She'll require hearing aids, for the rest of her life, to give her sound as close to equivalent as "normal". Her hearing loss is progressive. She may be deaf one day; we just don't know.

So yesterday was the big day to get hearing aids. The new audiologist, Dr. Kennedy, is very, very nice. After she filled Camille's ears with the molding material, she let Camille have the extra to play with. Camille was a real trooper... completely brave and steadfast throughout the whole process.

She chose purple hearing aids and pink ear molds with glitter. I imagine they will look quite fashionable :)