Just a little gratitude

We have mailed out over 100 thank you cards. My hand aches a bit :) It's a great problem to have.
I insisted that the least I could do was to hand write messages to all our contributors.
In Corbin news, he passed his hearing test on the "good" ear about two weeks ago at the audiology visit to UNC. For the first time ever, the audiologist was able to test the microtic side using a little device connected to a head band that rested on his skull. Corbin did amazingly well for such a complicated hearing test. The audiologist put static in his good ear and isolated the side affected by Microtia. It was fascinating to see that there were certain sounds that Corbin could actually hear (albeit on a loud scale). He was instructed to push a big red button when he heard the bird chirping. I was sitting on the other side of the sound booth watching, and let's just say I was weepy. We know from previous cat scans that he doesn't have fully grown ear bones nor does he have an ear canal, and he never will. But to know that with a bone-anchored hearing aid in his future and his new cosmetic ear he will actually hear a range of sounds makes me so happy. When we fly out to L.A. for the big day in July I will make every effort to update this blog so that all of Corbin's supporters can follow along. Thanks to everybody who has contributed, prayed, or just simply visited this site!!!! It means the world to us.