Last night Anna asked me "How do you make it so you don't have to wear hearing aids? I don't want to wear them anymore when I'm a grown up."
She's only asked or made reference once or twice before as to why she has to wear hearing aids and most people don't. We had a discussion on technology and how they are working on implantable hearing aids (same concept as a pacemaker) and how they're working on trying to figure out how to make ears work (regrowing the hairs on the cochlea). And I told her they may have it all figured out by the time she's a grown up. Or, at the very least if she wants, she can have the little ones that go inside the ear canal. She seemed more concerned right now that her cute swirly-colored earmolds with colorful beads on them might not be what she wants when she's older.
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