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sherry3995
07-30-2007, 10:01 AM
Well we all enjoy ST! and use it for various reasons. Here is my most recent success with ST!.

My son, Michael, Age 9 had his tonsils and adnoids removed last thursday. Unlike when I was a little girl they do an outpatient surgery and send them home when finished. So when he was out of surgery the nurses brought us back to sit with him while he came out of anestesia (sp?), he woke up and was trying to tell us something. I could not understand one word (he was like a drunken person that slurred his speach). So I told him, "Use your signs". He did I could understand what he wanted, he used signs and fingerspelling to communicate to me! The nurse then asked me "Is he hearing impared?" I told her "No we are just learning a second language". My only dissapointment was that I did not have time to tell her about ST! She had another boy that she needed to attend to.

Even now that my son is home, he uses his signs so he does not have to talk as he heals.

:)

catybarra
07-30-2007, 08:15 PM
Wow! That's neat! I love hearing success stories like that. Hope he's feeling better soon.

jenml
07-30-2007, 08:25 PM
.....My son, Michael, Age 9 had his tonsils and adnoids removed last thursday. ......
So I told him, "Use your signs". He did I could understand what he wanted, he used signs and fingerspelling to communicate to me! ........
Even now that my son is home, he uses his signs so he does not have to talk as he heals.
:)

This happened to us, too... Henry has his adenoids, tonsils and bilateral ear tubes done all at once when he was 3 and a half. Thank God for the signing, because he couldn't talk for days!! (not to mention when he did talk, he was so angry and crabby and difficult to understand...).
I even said to my husband that I don't know how people do it who don't have sign for times like these.

I often get spoiled at home in my all-signing environment when I have a sore throat or I'm soo sick, and I don't have to talk. Then I go to work not fully recovered or still recuperating and everyone is talking to me and I have to talk back... I instictively want to start to sign sometimes just because of the discomfort and the ease of ASL, catching myself... often forgetting who my audience is!!

Hope Michael feels better soon... it gets better after the first few days. Push fluids (like crazy) and the pain meds really helped my son (first few days). Good luck...

Lynja_the_ninja
07-31-2007, 10:23 AM
I like reading your story and it reminded me of my latest use of ST. We just started giving my DD nebulizer treatments at home. She hates them!!! but if I put her on my lap and watch ST with her, she will tolerate the whole treatment!!! I love ST!!

mandible
07-31-2007, 10:38 AM
That's a great story!