We have a surgical date. November 8th will be the big day of E's surgery. We were expecting it to be sometime in December before we could get a date, but we received a call and were offered a date in October. We were surprised that it was so close and requested the November date to give ourselves a little more time to prepare.
We had to go ahead and choose an implant in order to schedule the surgery. We begrudgingly chose the Cochlear Freedom internal component paired with the the Cochlear N5 external processor. We were told that our ENT does not yet put his faith in Advanced Bionics since they JUST regained approval. We are interested in Advanced Bionics especially due to the impending release of their Neptune waterproof processor. I have an unfortunate feeling though that we will get E's implant and about a week later, the Neptune will be released. That tends to be our luck...always a day late and a dollar short.
Good luck! Our 1 year old had his first cochlear implant on 9/19 and we are having the surgery on his 2nd ear on 11/15. You'll be surprised how fast he will recover from surgery.
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