The girls had the follow-up eye exams today. Hazel's eyes looked better, but the doctor still wants to check again next week to see how they are progressing. Abigail's will be checked again in two weeks. Hopefully there will be no permanent issues with either of them.
While I was there this afternoon, a technician came by to do hearing scans for both girls. It was interesting - the tech hooked up a series of wires, plus a wire/gelatin thing on each ear, and then measured the brain waves to determine if each ear passed or failed. Hazel passed with no problem. Abby, though, did not pass either ear. The tech told me this was actually Abby's second hearing scan (she had failed the first one, too), but the NICU babies are given three tests, so Abby's final test will likely be closer to the discharge date. Apparently the odds are very small that she fails that one too, but if so, she'd get an outpatient appointment for after discharge for a four test, and if that one doesn't go well either, she'd be referred to a specialist (with even lower odds for this to happen). I think this is one of those things that I am going to try not to worry about now, since the odds are so slim; plus, I wouldn't probably even know about it if I hadn't happened to have been present at the time the test was performed (for example, I didn't know she had a previous test).
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