Dreaming

At UCLA hospital and campus.

Two very spread out appointments today, so we took the opportunity to stroll around the gorgeous campus a mile away. The walk on the gentle incline felt good. I'd always been a big walker, til LA days. There is such a wealth of both modern and Romanesque Revival architectural, each seemingly sitting happily side by side. The university itself means a great deal to us: both boys graduated from the Early Intervention Program, Callum as a typical peer role model to the kids with special needs.

Reuben was quick to remind me that this is where we'd attended the American Idol World Premiere.

Back at the appointments, he probably succeeded for the first time in giving the audiologists a workable behavioural hearing test. It has to be said that he's never been keen on doing a command based on hearing a noise through a speaker. The latter appointment was to assess his suitability for a BAHA hearing aid implanted into his skull. Sounds gruesome, but we've been looking forward to getting rid of the hairband since he was 6 months old. His skull is now thick enough to accommodate the device and he will wear one on one side only since it's found that he has a 20-30db hearing on his right ear by virtue of transference of the sound from the device on his left which conducts sound through his skill. Amazing technology.

As ever, Reuben strolls the walks and ways striking up conversations with Drs and nurses, a little girl with a similar feeding tube as his own and I feel he made her day.

'I did awesome today", said Reuben. "You were lost today Mummy".

Boy's getting a little too full of himself methinks.