Sara ’ s Hearing Loss - Rachael Nash 8th Grade
My parents and I jumped in the car . My parents were driving me to a place called the audiologist center . “ What is an audiologist center ” Sara asked her parents “ Well it is a place that you can get your hearing checked or get your hearing devices ” Sara ’ s mom answered . “ I need my hearing checked . But my hearing is perfect ” Sara said . “ You failed the hearing test at school , so we need make sure you ' re not losing your hearing ” Sara ’ s mom said .
My parents and I walked into the audiologist center . My parents checked in with the the receptionist , so I sat on a comfy couch they had . My parents sat with me when they were done filling out paperwork from the receptionist . They called a bunch of names , and each person went to a different room . They called my name and we walked into a room with lots of computers . The doctor talked to my parents about what would happen during the appointment . The doctor had red hair , white skin , blue glasses , a lab coat like jacket , and then she introduced herself “ Hello Sara I ’ m doctor Mia ” doctor Mia told Sara “ Hi , what are you going to do today ?” Sara asked doctor Mia “ First I ’ m going to bring you into a sound booth ” doctor Mia answered Sara . I entered the sound booth and there was a chair facing a glass window that I could see Doctor Mia through . She put headphones on me then she went back to her room . Doctor Mia also put headphones on so she could talk to me . “ Sara when I play a beep raise your hand ” Doctor Mia mentioned . Doctor Mia played the first beep and Sara heard it , so she raised her hand . Mia played another beep , but Sara didn ’ t hear it , so she didn ’ t raise her hand . Doctor Mia played the beep again and Sara still could not hear it . Doctor Mia played a bunch of beeps then it was time for something else . “ Now the person on the machine will say a word , after you hear the word repeat what you hear ” Doctor Mia said . “ Ice cream ” the machine said “ ice cream ” Sara repeated . “ Hotdog ” the machine said “ hotdog ” Sara repeated . “ Jump ” the machine said “ dump ” Sara tried repeating . Sara listened to more words and tried repeating them the best she could . After all the tests were done , Doctor Mia showed my parents a chart called an audiogram that showed what I could hear and not hear . Doctor Mia told me that I have a moderately severe hearing loss so I needed hearing aids “ the hearing aids will make sounds louder . Doctor Mia squirted some pink goop in both my ears . “ Sara , you need to wait 5 minutes till we take out the pink goop ” Doctor Mia said .
( 5 minutes later ) Doctor Mia took out the pink goop then asked me what color I wanted my ear molds to be . “ I want glittery pink ear molds ” Sara answered , “ Sara the color of your hearing aid is going to be whatever color I have ” Doctor Mia said “ ok sounds cool ” Sara said . Doctor Mia took out the hearing aid samples , and she had purple , gray and red to choose from . “ Which color do you want for your hearing aid ” Doctor Mia asked , “ I want red and gray ” Sara answered , “ well you need 1 color for both then the other color will be a backup ” Doctor Mia said “ I want the red one and the gray for backup ” Sara mentioned . Doctor Mia told my parents to come back on Friday .
( On Friday ) “ hello Sara today we will put your hearing aids on for the first time ” Doctor Mia said “ yay ” Sara said excitedly . Doctor Mia put my fully programmed hearing aids on my ears , then she asked me if it sounded good and it did sound good . She told my parents that I will need a dm system for school so I can hear my teachers better . But the dm system and the stuff for it will come in 2 weeks .
( At school in pe class ) “ today we will play castle ball ” mr r the pe teacher said . All the kids started to build there castles out of the hula hoops but the teacher called me over “ Sara do know the no earbuds and phone rule ” mr r asked “ yes and I don ’ t have any earbuds on or my phone on me ” Sara said “ I don ’ t believe that and what do you have in your ears ” mr r asked ” “ it ’ s my hearing aid ” Sara answered “ oh I ’ m sorry for mistaking your hearing aids as earbuds and you can go back and play ” mr r said . I went to my group and started to play . As I was playing someone threw a ball and it hit my face and knocked my left hearing aid out of my ear , I tried to pick it up , but the ball landed on my hearing