Friday, July 22, 2011

The Story of Lilli and The Ears

Once upon a time, there was a princess named Lilli.  Lilli was beautiful, smart, and had a wonderful little outgoing personality.  She was practically perfect in every way. 

Except for her ears. 

Princess Lilli was having a hard time hearing.  Her school kingdom was holding its annual Hearing Test Fest, and Lilli was very excited to don her blue and red-headphones and raise each hand at the sound of the beep. 

Right ear first...beep beep beep...hand hand hand. 
Left ear second...beep beep beep..hand...?....?....nothing. 

The head of the Test Fest sent a note to Queen Megan and suggested that Princess Lilli have her ears checked again by the local royal doctor.  Queen Megan promptly made an appointment, and the results were the same. 

Right ear first...beep beep beep...hand hand hand. 
Left ear second...beep beep beep..hand...?....?....nothing.

Queen Megan frowned.  The Kingdom's Doctor frowned.  Princess Lilli frowned.  The Doctor suggested giving Princess Lilli about 4 months to see if there was build-up of royal fluid in her ears that might drain on its own.  Since Princess Lilli was due to turn 5 in June, the Doctor suggested she have her ears checked again then.

Princess Lilli continued to laugh and play, but King Jim and Queen Megan noticed that she could not hear the royal TV as well, and often asked for the music in the family carriage to be turned up a little more.  King Jim frowned.  Queen Megan frowned.

June came, and Princess Lilli went back to the Kingdom's Doctor for another ear check

Right ear first...beep beep beep...hand hand ...?.... 
Left ear second...beep beep beep..?...?....?....

Uh-oh.  This is not what the Doctor wanted.  He frowned.  He recommended that the King and Queen take Princess Lilli to see a specialist at Butheran Heneral (pause the story...most of you know my feeling about this if you have read posts in the past, but we LOVE Dr. Peters and follow his recommendations completely).

Queen Megan, Princess Lilli, and Princess Abigail all make haste to Butheran Heneral.  The next Royal Doctor looks in Princess Lilli's ears for TWO FREAKING SECONDS and sends her off to have an Royal Hearing Test in a Royal Booth. 

Right ear first...beep beep beep...hand hand ...?.... 
Left ear second...beep beep beep..?...?....?....

The Royal Doctor recommends that Princess Lilli have tubes placed in her ears, her tonsils removed, and her anodes removed.  Queen Megan said, "You want to do what?"  She was not happy.  She asked for a second opinion.

Queen Megan and King Jim took Princess Lilli on a long journey (Lincoln Park) to see the Grand Doctor of Ears (at Children's Memorial).  The Grand Doctor looked at Princess Lilli's ears for a long time.  She took down a lot of information from the King and Queen.  She even pulled out a great number of watermelons (earwax balls) from Princess Lilli's ears.  And she ordered another test done in her own Royal Hearing Test Booth.

Queen Megan fretted.  She frowned.  She watched Lilli like a hawk to see what level the sound was on the TV, on the radio, on the MoBiGo.

The day came for Princess Lilli to have her second Royal Hearing Test.  The maid-in-waiting Carrie came in.  (PS.  We heart Carrie in Audiology at Children's Memorial.)  She took pictures of Princess Lilli's ears.  She played games with Princess Lilli.

Right ear first...beep beep beep...hand hand hand
Left ear second...beep beep beep..hand hand hand

What?  Princess Lilli passed.  She passed with a perfect score.  Queen Megan and King Jim are very happy that they took Princess Lilli to the Grand Doctor of Ears.  Princess Lilli is very happy because maid-in-waiting Carrie gave her two stickers.

And they lived happily ever after.

The moral of the story....if we hadn't asked for a second opinion, Lilli would have already had a pretty major surgery that she really didn't need.  And shout out to Kathy for sharing insight into Children's Memorial and visiting us while we were there! 

The End.