Wednesday 13th April 2011

Today mummy told me that we have to go to the hospital for my pre-assessment. She made a picnic up as we are going to be there all day. That is exciting, having a picnic in the hospital. I had sandwiches, cake, grapes and crisps and so did mummy. I took my scooter to the hospital with us. When we got off of the bus, mummy had to collapse it as i'm not allowed it in the hospital. We went to where i see Lucy as mummy wasn't sure where i needed to go. Once they knew, we then went there. It was called the day care ward. We stayed in the playroom until the nurse came to get us, i liked the playroom, i played with a playmobil castle. It had horses in, that was good. Mummy sat and played with me too. Then a nurse called us through so we went into another room with her. I took my questions that i had done with mummy.

Mummy and me sat down and spoke about what i would like to ask when we go in to the hospital and this is what i thought of

We got in there and the nurse had to take another swab of my nose, like they did at the doctors a couple of weeks ago. That tickled. Then she had to prick my finger, to get some blood, i was very brave and didn't cry. It was funny watching my blood go into the little pot. After that, she answered some of my questions, she wasn't sure of some answers so the play specialist came in, she had a book to show me. It had pictures in. There was pictures of the ward, the beds, the room where i will have my operation, the room where i go after my operation. The play specialist was called Molly, Molly spoke to me about each picture and mummy wasn't sure how much i was taking in as there was lots of information. Then Molly took us to the ward where i'm going to be on Monday. I liked looking around it. After we had finished there, we went back to the day care ward and the doctor was there. He had to listen to my lungs and heart and then asked me a couple of questions, well mummy really. He wasn't expecting my questions, mummy asked him the first one, how they are going to do it, she explained that i have been asking that one lots and mummy hasn't been sure how to explain and thought he would be able to explain in a way that i can understand. He couldnt', mummy didn't even understand what he meant, silly doctor. After that, we went downstairs and had our picnic in the hospital, that was fun. When we were sat there, mummy was talking to me about what had happened this morning, to see if i had understood any of it. Mummy was very proud of me, i had. This is what i said to her 'i'm going to have magic cream on my hand, then a butterfly straw put in my hand where the sleepy medicine goes. Then when we go to the room for my operation, they are going to put the sleepy medicine in' After we had had our picnic, we still had an hour until our next appointment, and we had already been sat for nearly an hour eating our picnic (the first appointment finished earlier than mummy thought it would) So we went up to the ENT part and i played in the playroom bit until we were called, it was ages. Mummy thought i was quite happy playing until i turned round to her and said 'its just boring waiting isn't it mummy' then mummy came and done some colouring with me. Finally we were called. A lady took us to one of the special rooms where there are two doors, it goes really quiet in there. I had some special headphones on and then we played a game, i had to put an animal in the box every time i heard a noise. After that, the lady told us we could go back to the waiting room. We were called to go and see Miss Lennox then. When we got in there, she looked in my ears she told mummy that i had glue in one of them and that my hearing test had come back as quite low in both ears. She explained to mummy about the scars i have in my ear drums from the first set of grommets i had, that there is a pocket of scar tissue near one of them and she doesn't want to put grommets in just because i'm having an operation on monday, she would like to wait and see if my hearing will get better by itself. Then we had to go back to the waiting room and the same lady who done my hearing test came and found us, she took us to a different room and had to take moulds of both of my ears. 

First she had to put small pieces of cotton wool in my ears, that had a bit of thread attached (you can see the thread in the picture above) and then she squirted the mould stuff in, it filled my ear and felt funny. I couldnt' hear anything when she done that. There was some spare so she squirted it in my hand so i could mould it into a ball, i liked doing that, although it made my hand smell, i didn't like that bit. When it had gone a bit hard in my ears, she pulled it out and you could see the shape of my ears, that was good seeing that. I told her that i would like a pink hearing aid. Then we were allowed to go home, we had been there all day. 
We walked to headington, well i scooted and mummy walked, i kept telling mummy that one of my legs wanted ice poles because it kept making me go fast. When we went to the shop, we found 3 different types of ice poles, that was good. When we got home, we relaxed and i had an early night as i was so tired.