THE TIME MY SISTER LOST HER HEARING

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I was in AIT, when Hannah started getting her ear infections, and having hearing problems. She was six years old and in first grade, she was getting all A’s a very bright, happy go lucky little girl. Hannah was always laughing and playing she is a very sweet little girl. The frighting time, i was away at a traing school, that my little sister Hannah, experience hearing loss.
Hannah was born on the brisk autumn morning of October 29th 2003, she was a beautiful red headed, little chubby baby. After my mom had examined her ,she noticed a needle shapped hole in her neck. Which confused my mom. She knew Hannah did not get a shot in her neck. My mom asked the doctor about the hole, and the doctor told mom it was nothing to worry about, and it would more than likely go away on its own. So my mom did not worry about it. At Hannah’s six week and eighteen month checkups, my mom brought the tiny needle shapped hole up,and the doctors still said the same thing about it going away on its own. Hannah had nummerous well child checkups and immunizations, each time docter said the same thing .
When Hannah started kindergarten, some strange things started happening with the hole in her neck. One day she had some gooey, slimy clear looking fluid running down her neck. Mom thought she just got something on herself, but as mom checked this she realized it came from the hole. This horrified my mom ,so she made an appointment and took Hannah to the doctor. Again she got the same prognosis that it was nothing to worry about and would go away. Hannah kept pulling this gooey, slimy, gunck out of her neck .She could stretch it like chewing gum, and when she did this it would make her gag. Hannah said it tickled her tonsils. My mom was ...

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... were beating in her chest.They gave Hannah her anestia ,and she fell asleep. She was in surgery for three hours, the doctor had to make two four inch incisions on her neck. One above the hole ,one below, in order to get all the tails of these cysts. The doctor said it was a good thing they caught it when they did, because it could have grown downward and strangled her heart out, or it could have went upwards ,and caused all kinds of different things with the spinal column.
Today Hannah is a healthy happy ten year old little girl. She does exceptional in school, she is on the honor roll. Hannah hears perfectly well and loves life, she calls her scars “life scars”, she says because she would not be alive without them. Thankfully mom was persistent and stayed on top of something the doctors told her over and over was nothing to worry about.

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