Nerve Hearing Loss

 I saw my ENT today and the medication damaged my nerve hearing by about 5 decibels.  This is never good because I already have 80% conductive hearing loss and nerve loss, hearing aides can’t help. 

He also explained why male voices (like sermons) are harder for me and make my vertigo and nausea worse—he said they are an amp lord sound wave so as it vibrates on the cochlea and the nerve I’m probably getting an extra “ting”. He confirmed it’s going to take at least several months to heal, probably more. (My guess is 6 months but we’ll see) He did say the nerve hearing damage *could* heal and come back some but we won’t know for awhile, so we can pray for that. 

My lungs continue to decline by the day with thicker and greener mucus and more and constant and increased pain and I get short of breath pretty quickly.  I was wrong about ICU—here they have such well trained staff on the pulmonary floor I’ll be admitted where I’ve been in the past and only go to ICU if needed (like if I react poorly to the process).  Visitation is back to being completely open and I can have  overnight visitors so I would love company as I’m definitely a bit nervous going into this. (During the day and overnight)

A question lots of people have been asking is if Jord is taking me. We have the utmost confidence in this team of docs and NP’s and nurses so initially our plan is to have Mom and Dad take me down, and of course he’ll come if something happens or if I get emotional and need him. He doesn’t have much vacation time right now because we were both pretty sick mid-March—for the first time since I’ve known him in 20 years he ran a fever…allergies turned into a lung infection so he missed a week of work then. We also have a staycation planned at the end of May with some friends here and really want to be able to do that instead of using his vacation to be with me in the hospital. Obviously, “Many are the plans in man’s heart but the Lord directs his steps” (Proverbs 16:9), so we hold our plans with an open hand (thanks for this picture Sarah!) and trust that His perfect plan will be done and we can trust Him each step of the way

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I am in awe of my God and how He is loving us through this valley once more! 

For the King!

Rachelle