For Love

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 :)