Beebe,
I wish you didn't live so far away, you could play all night with my kitty Tilt. His sleep,play and yelling patterns are the same as yours. He is deaf, but wasn't born that way. He came from a place with 67 other cats and kittens. I did a rescue......I kept the four babies. They had multiple problems. Ear mites were one of them. The mothers exposure to parvo in her first 3 weeks of pregnancy was another. I lost 2 of the babies, but managed to get Tilt and his sister Georgine healthy enough to live. The vet told me the mites ate his ear drums. yuckkkkkk He also has cerebrial hypoplasis. He walks with a tilt to his head and is slew footed. That is from the exposure to parvo.
Good Luck, beautiful Beebe. Tell your Mom I think she is very lucky to have such a special furrbaby.
Catsgarden