The best hearing aids the NHS can give

In church today, Pads was showing the other hearing-aid wearers his new kit. He'd been to get them fitted on Wednesday and Ally was stunned at the of technology. They're really quite small and, when his hair grows to his ears they really will be hard to spot. The transparant plastic tube does not fill his ear, it just boosts the higher frequencies, compensating for the defecit incurred through chemotherapy... clever stuff. Pads was a bit shocked at the effect initially but he's getting used to them quickly. They are the very latest and best hearing aids the NHS can give. They're even helping his tinitus.
There were lots of things worrying Pads about school. Perhaps the biggest one was the travel. We have also heard very good things about the level of support in the local Welsh-medium school, the one that Pads' contemporaries all went to. They were very accommodating and have agreed to meet us tomorrow for a chat. It is literally ten minutes drive away, three minutes from where Ally works... so you can see that would make a big difference to being able to 'rescue' him if needed.

Time to dig out the Christmas scripture reading plan... Here's the word document version...

Next steps...?

Pads has been continuing in the same vein really, and so we started a conversation about school, trying to leave the options wide open, including mum travelling with him so he could just be in for an hour, just having the tutor (who has taken students like Pads right through GCSE's before), etc., etc.. This upset him up a bit: there are so many 'issues' and it'll take us a while to work through them and arrive at the best route for him. Pads is generally quite well, although he was ill this morning, Sunday morning and last Wednesday. So he and mum popped in to the ward. The decision was to increase his anti-sickness meds. Pads was due to go in today anyway to pick up his hearing aids. They're fit neatly but he's still acutely conscious of them. This is especially true when they're switched on, they seem very loud at the moment!
By the way, Season's Greetings from the 'Flash Mob'