This trip has many ups and downs. You are so so beat from the travel and the hours...but so uplifted and excited about the results for the kids and young adults who are being given the gift of hearing. In the two prior days, because of the job task that I was doing, I did not get a chance to see much of what was happening when the fittings were happening. Today, I DID. What is equally amazing to me as the children who can now hear, is the parents....The mom or dad who brings the child in to be tested and treated. They are so patient and good with the children. Often, they have made up their own way to communicate with hand gestures and facial expressions only they understand. The relief on their faces
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