Today was a long day! Jimmy and I left early this morning to drive to Mercy Children’s in Kansas City, MO only to return back home all in the same day. BUT…… Today is the first day in a long time that my favorite ten-year-old could hear ‘normal’ for the first time! It was just Jimmy and me in the car for 10 hours and I would do it all again tomorrow to hear him say as we walked outside for the first time, “mom, I can hear you so well! Mom, I love your voice!” For anyone who has listened to my worry, my fears and my tears as I tried to work through what was the best path forward for my son, THANK YOU!!! Today was it!!! This all started 18-months ago when we received a note home from school saying that Jimmy had failed two hearing test and that we needed to see a third party audiologist. I truly thought nothing of this, ‘maybe he had an ear infection? Or likely just wasn’t paying attention because he’s an 8-year-old boy?’ But In June of 2020 (still the height of COVID), I brou