countdown to CI surgery!

SkullChick · 12-29-2007, 07:18 PM

Jan 15th! Only 2 and half weeks to go!!
Can't believe I'm going to get implanted.... I'm getting little nervous lol.
Only because I'm terrified of one part of anthenesia where your body act weird and shaky and heart rate and pressure goes haywire (140 heartbeats a min! That set alarm off till nurse hugged me it went down a bit) till get last part of anthenesia that knock you out! ACK! HATE that part because it scared me bad last time I went under lol I thought I was gonna get cardiac arrest sheesh lol hope I didn't freak out as bad this time and also this time my BF will be next to me and I'll ask him to hold me if I start getting too freaked out from side effect lol.
That's actually only thing I'm nervous about....
.... ok maybe not only one.... lol but sorry for being so vain but I'm nervous about surgeon shaving my hair off LOL
Wish me luck and also my dates for everything is below.

* PRE-OP appt is Jan 9th
* POST-OP appt is jan 23rd
* ACTIVATION (the big day!) is Feb 12th

Hope everything goes smoothly.

P.S: Is the pain usually not severe just really uncomfortable like stiffness in neck and headache?

deafskeptic · 12-29-2007, 07:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SkullChick

Jan 15th! Only 2 and half weeks to go!!
Can't believe I'm going to get implanted.... I'm getting little nervous lol.
Only because I'm terrified of one part of anthenesia where your body act weird and shaky and heart rate and pressure goes haywire (140 heartbeats a min! That set alarm off till nurse hugged me it went down a bit) till get last part of anthenesia that knock you out! ACK! HATE that part because it scared me bad last time I went under lol I thought I was gonna get cardiac arrest sheesh lol hope I didn't freak out as bad this time and also this time my BF will be next to me and I'll ask him to hold me if I start getting too freaked out from side effect lol.
That's actually only thing I'm nervous about....
.... ok maybe not only one.... lol but sorry for being so vain but I'm nervous about surgeon shaving my hair off LOL
Wish me luck and also my dates for everything is below.

* PRE-OP appt is Jan 9th
* POST-OP appt is jan 23rd
* ACTIVATION (the big day!) is Feb 12th

Hope everything goes smoothly.

P.S: Is the pain usually not severe just really uncomfortable like stiffness in neck and headache?

Yay! You finally got the canidacy! I just bet you can't wait for the surgery and the activation.

For many, pain is just uncomfortable however posters like Hearagain have said they felt like they got run over by a truck. One poster said he threw up blood but that's pretty unusual. You may feel dizzy from surgery or meds and that may clear up in a week or days depending on how fast your recovery date is.

shel90 · 12-29-2007, 08:28 PM

Cograts and best of luck!

highlands · 12-30-2007, 02:44 PM

good luck

GarnetTigerMom · 12-30-2007, 04:55 PM

Congratulatons, I wish you the very best of luck with your C.I. sugery. :-)

vallee · 12-30-2007, 08:11 PM

Good luck with surgery. Remember day 2 is the worst and it gets better and better. I am very excited for you.

R2D2 · 12-30-2007, 10:35 PM

Good luck SkullChick! You've been waiting for this!

contradica · 01-01-2008, 07:27 PM

It will be here before you know it!

My pain was annoying and uncomfortable. It wasn't like pain pain. Cramps hurt worse.

SkullChick · 01-08-2008, 07:28 PM

Well my pre-op appointment is tomorrow
Jan 9th.
What should I know or do before the pre-op?
What do they do to me at pre-op?
Electrocardiogram, blood test?
Thanks!

vallee · 01-08-2008, 10:03 PM

take a pad and pencil. Make any notes on directions and place to be. We had to go through this one door not the other. So just learn where you need to go and what time you need to be there. Get there 30 minutes early.

Ask how long you wear your wrap. We had a confusion with scared hubby - he told me three weeks not three days.

Just ask anything that comes to your mind. No questions is wrong or silly.

Bear · 01-08-2008, 10:31 PM

Skullchick,

Congrats on your candidacy! Just relax, you will be fine! Look at how many of here came through the surgery! We are all still alive and kicking!

As for the pain, I agree with hearagain, I felt like I was hit by a Mack truck at first. But then the pain subsided and I was bouncing back like normal.

Everyone reacts different to pain that others.

And let me be the first to welcome you to the dark side.

SkullChick · 01-09-2008, 02:17 PM

Pre-op appt was simple just discussed couple things and asked million of questions not much happened but doctor heard my heart murmur today usually they doesn't but he don't seem worried about it and told me to get heart check up soon whenever so I'm good to go for surgery on 15th I'll find out what time I go in day before surgery I have to call hospital to get time for surgery, told me its outpatient so I have option to go home if I want to or stay overnight if I want to.

I think he's not worried cuz there's heart patient getting serious heart surgery goes under general anesthensia so I should be fine right?

I'm sure I'll be super nervous and maybe cry in surgery lol

Angel · 01-09-2008, 02:24 PM

Good luck

OpheliaSpeaks · 01-09-2008, 02:48 PM

Will def be thinking abt you. I had surgery last month and it didn't go as smoothly as it was supposed to but I lived to tell about it. :-) the important thing is to remember you must relinquish control which is hard to do! Just think...who has the experience to fix a problem if something goes wrong? You? Or the dr/nurses? That is what I tell myself... That it is best to leave things in their hands (and God's if you prefer) ;-) I am super excited for you! GL!!!

callisto · 01-09-2008, 04:51 PM

I whish you all the best!!!!!

contradica · 01-09-2008, 06:04 PM

I have a very slight heart murmur and I've been put under several times

It won't be long now

WBHarley · 01-09-2008, 09:37 PM

Skullchick.

you will do fine. they just want to take blood, question you few things like your history, medications blah Im sure which you already had it done today

dont worry or be afraid about after waking up surgery but like many of us who went thru.. all get various feeling..

Funny thing was.. when I got my first surgery in july 2001.. I felt like I got run over by a truck, and I felt like someone punch my jaw real hard..
This time I just had 2nd surgery on right ear jan 4th.. i woke up feeling pretty good, i though that was odd, dr said its good news, I said the noise etc he said thats good news blah etc im like what the heck are they crazy or what... Few days later.. yesterday I feel like I got run over by a truck but... at same time I came down with cold! what a nasty! just don't get yourself sick, keep yourself germ-free from everyone

and be sure to keep update with all of us

I rarely post out here but I m wishing you your luck and do share

hehe

jillio · 01-09-2008, 09:43 PM

It's getting closer! Good luck to you, Skullchick. Re: the anesthesia....just realx and enjoy the ride!

NickCameron1031 · 01-10-2008, 02:50 PM

I knew it was coming up soon and i am glad i checked up on here. Good luck to you, thanks for all your help with my issues you have given me. You seem really excited! The anethesia is no big deal, it always reminds me of when i take too much benadryl.

HUGS

Nick

SkullChick · 01-11-2008, 11:24 AM

I'm feeling little more relaxed and it still haven't hit me that I'm gonna be implanted and become Ci-borg and join the dark side in 4 days! Its like totally weirdest feeling lol. And I'm sure on activation day I'll laugh and get kick out of it when they stuck magnet on my head and it stick I'll be like "omg it really is there!" and imagine when I first hear sound EEK I have no clue how I'll feel or what its like cuz all result is different I'm excited!
Also I got interview for anesthesia stuff like ask me my medical history, allergies, etc and let me ask million questions and they told me they'll give me much stronger sedative than diazepam/valium so I'll be sleepy and hopefully it work like its supposed to this time and I practiced breathing technique to try help me calm down a bit (panic disorder) and I figure while they inject the sedative I will just close m eyes and do that breathing excerise and keep doing that till it kicked in completely then I should be sleepy and relaxed right?

Hope that work!
Also they want me stay overnight
Yuck! Hospital creep me out and imagine at night! I'll probably hallunicate zombie or killer nurses/doctor coming in to kill me LMAO

LadySekhmet · 01-11-2008, 02:52 PM

Hey Skullchick,
You'll be fine. I know what you mean by breathing excerises (my bf has panic episodes sometimes, and even I use it if I feel nervous).

They will knock you out pretty quickly when you arrive in the OR.
They will put in catheter and just inject the sedative (probably will use Propofol this time for you...white stuff). Then you'll just drift off to sleep quickly.

The only thing that I did not like waking up was the chills/shaking. I keep getting cold, then hot, cold then hot...that was uncomfortable.

Other than that, I'm home, resting, just chillin'. You'll be back to your old self again in no time.

Good luck!

Bear · 01-13-2008, 10:59 PM

All I remember is waking up and having a oxygen mask on me which I hated and feeling like I got run over by a mack truck, then they gave me the morphine. Man was I out of it! Then I got back to the room and they gave me more pain pills! LOL talk about flying high!!!!

PuyoPiyo · 01-14-2008, 08:26 AM

Just wanna to tell SkullChick a good luck for the surgery tomorrow!

SkullChick · 01-14-2008, 08:31 AM

TOMORROW!!! Lol
Today's the day I should know what time I go in hospital tmw they'll call my bf or his mother today and they'll tell me I'll update again tonight or morning before idk we'll see, not nervous yet, strange I usually get nervous way before any prodecure cuz I'm nervous person! Lol weird indeed! Hm well except for like 1 second if I think too much I get slight knot in my stomach but I tell myself "stop, relax don't get nervous I'll be fine and try stay calm long as possible till anesthesia kicked in" lol its kinda hard cuz I'm anxious, nervous type person and its TOMORROW!! Lol so strange that I'm getting surgery and get implanted, its like surreal like it have to be dream not reality. Weirdest feeling ever lol
Later tonight maybe 9-10 pm I'll update my blog with time of surgery for tomorrow and whatever else if they mentioned something and my feeling about whole thing like if I get nervous yet LOL
And next time I update blog will be probably day after surgery since I'm staying overnight if I'm up to it and if not I'll just update on here alldeaf its easier on my sidekick my blog won't let me sign on for some reason *shrug*
Thanks you all for support and answering my questions :-)
-Amy

SkullChick · 01-14-2008, 06:41 PM

i got time for my surgery its at 9 am eastern time, but i have to be at hospital at 7 am ugh hate get up so early cuz im always so starving if i wake up before 10 am

so everything seem to be going perfectly and im still calm and not nervous at all yet so hopefully that stay that way when i go in lol we'll see i just need not to think about it and tell myself to relax and its ok or think positive things like 'wow soon i will be able to hear my boyfriend, kitty meowing, music *i dont care if sound bad i just want hear it again* etc
-Amy

Blazing Sunset · 01-14-2008, 06:50 PM

SkullChick:

Congratulations and good luck with your surgery! Keep us posted!

shel90 · 01-14-2008, 06:56 PM

Wow! Good luck!

12-29-2007, 07:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
SkullChick Lil Ci-Borg Chick Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Middle Of Nowhere, Delaware Posts: 635	countdown to CI surgery! Jan 15th! Only 2 and half weeks to go!! Can't believe I'm going to get implanted.... I'm getting little nervous lol. Only because I'm terrified of one part of anthenesia where your body act weird and shaky and heart rate and pressure goes haywire (140 heartbeats a min! That set alarm off till nurse hugged me it went down a bit) till get last part of anthenesia that knock you out! ACK! HATE that part because it scared me bad last time I went under lol I thought I was gonna get cardiac arrest sheesh lol hope I didn't freak out as bad this time and also this time my BF will be next to me and I'll ask him to hold me if I start getting too freaked out from side effect lol. That's actually only thing I'm nervous about.... .... ok maybe not only one.... lol but sorry for being so vain but I'm nervous about surgeon shaving my hair off LOL Wish me luck and also my dates for everything is below. * PRE-OP appt is Jan 9th * POST-OP appt is jan 23rd * ACTIVATION (the big day!) is Feb 12th Hope everything goes smoothly. P.S: Is the pain usually not severe just really uncomfortable like stiffness in neck and headache? __________________ [Left Ear] Implanted 1/15/08 with Nucleus Freedom! Activated 2/12/08 with Freedom BTE Link for my Cochlear Implant http://skullchick.blogspot.com Link for my Blog unrelated to cochlear Implant http://skullchickworld.blogspot.com

12-29-2007, 08:28 PM	#3 (permalink)
shel90 Sun Whorshipper Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: A Desert Rat that has found herself in Maryland Posts: 16,155 Blog Entries: 1	Cograts and best of luck! __________________ ~Shel~ "A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." -George Santayana

12-30-2007, 02:44 PM	#4 (permalink)
highlands In Love & Happy Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: in an inland city Posts: 4,168	good luck __________________

12-30-2007, 04:55 PM	#5 (permalink)
GarnetTigerMom Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 4,900	Congratulatons, I wish you the very best of luck with your C.I. sugery. :-) __________________ GarnetTigerMom "The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so glad that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end." -- Robert Alan

12-30-2007, 08:11 PM	#6 (permalink)
vallee Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Tennessee Posts: 1,115	Good luck with surgery. Remember day 2 is the worst and it gets better and better. I am very excited for you. __________________ Right and Left Implanted July 19, 2007 Activated August 9, 2007 Both Advanced Bionics Harmony

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12-30-2007, 10:35 PM	#7 (permalink)
R2D2 Retired from All Deaf! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 2,606	Good luck SkullChick! You've been waiting for this! __________________ Left ear implanted 9th June 2006 Activated 29th June 2006 Right ear implanted 31st August 2007 Activated 18th September Both Nucleus Freedom Cochlear implant myths

01-01-2008, 07:27 PM	#8 (permalink)
contradica Contradica Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New Jersey Posts: 359	It will be here before you know it! My pain was annoying and uncomfortable. It wasn't like pain pain. Cramps hurt worse. __________________ When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. 8.27.07 -Left ear implanted with HiRes90k 9.17.07 -Activated with Harmony 120! http://contradica.blogspot.com

01-08-2008, 07:28 PM	#9 (permalink)
SkullChick Lil Ci-Borg Chick Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Middle Of Nowhere, Delaware Posts: 635	7 more days! Well my pre-op appointment is tomorrow Jan 9th. What should I know or do before the pre-op? What do they do to me at pre-op? Electrocardiogram, blood test? Thanks! __________________ [Left Ear] Implanted 1/15/08 with Nucleus Freedom! Activated 2/12/08 with Freedom BTE Link for my Cochlear Implant http://skullchick.blogspot.com Link for my Blog unrelated to cochlear Implant http://skullchickworld.blogspot.com

01-08-2008, 10:03 PM	#10 (permalink)
vallee Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Tennessee Posts: 1,115	take a pad and pencil. Make any notes on directions and place to be. We had to go through this one door not the other. So just learn where you need to go and what time you need to be there. Get there 30 minutes early. Ask how long you wear your wrap. We had a confusion with scared hubby - he told me three weeks not three days. Just ask anything that comes to your mind. No questions is wrong or silly. __________________ Right and Left Implanted July 19, 2007 Activated August 9, 2007 Both Advanced Bionics Harmony

01-08-2008, 10:31 PM	#11 (permalink)
Bear Out Of Hibernation Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,026	Skullchick, Congrats on your candidacy! Just relax, you will be fine! Look at how many of here came through the surgery! We are all still alive and kicking! As for the pain, I agree with hearagain, I felt like I was hit by a Mack truck at first. But then the pain subsided and I was bouncing back like normal. Everyone reacts different to pain that others. And let me be the first to welcome you to the dark side. __________________ http://bears-city.myminicity.com/

01-09-2008, 02:17 PM	#12 (permalink)
SkullChick Lil Ci-Borg Chick Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Middle Of Nowhere, Delaware Posts: 635	Pre-op appt was simple just discussed couple things and asked million of questions not much happened but doctor heard my heart murmur today usually they doesn't but he don't seem worried about it and told me to get heart check up soon whenever so I'm good to go for surgery on 15th I'll find out what time I go in day before surgery I have to call hospital to get time for surgery, told me its outpatient so I have option to go home if I want to or stay overnight if I want to. I think he's not worried cuz there's heart patient getting serious heart surgery goes under general anesthensia so I should be fine right? I'm sure I'll be super nervous and maybe cry in surgery lol __________________ [Left Ear] Implanted 1/15/08 with Nucleus Freedom! Activated 2/12/08 with Freedom BTE Link for my Cochlear Implant http://skullchick.blogspot.com Link for my Blog unrelated to cochlear Implant http://skullchickworld.blogspot.com

01-09-2008, 02:24 PM	#13 (permalink)
Angel ♥"Concrete Angel"♥ Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 19,088	Good luck __________________ "When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is brought in our life, OR in the life of another." ~ Helen Keller

01-09-2008, 02:48 PM	#14 (permalink)
OpheliaSpeaks CrackBerry 8320 Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Buffalo Posts: 157	Will def be thinking abt you. I had surgery last month and it didn't go as smoothly as it was supposed to but I lived to tell about it. :-) the important thing is to remember you must relinquish control which is hard to do! Just think...who has the experience to fix a problem if something goes wrong? You? Or the dr/nurses? That is what I tell myself... That it is best to leave things in their hands (and God's if you prefer) ;-) I am super excited for you! GL!!!

01-09-2008, 04:51 PM	#15 (permalink)
callisto .:Going under:. Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: somewhere in europe Posts: 119	I whish you all the best!!!!!

01-09-2008, 06:04 PM	#16 (permalink)
contradica Contradica Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New Jersey Posts: 359	I have a very slight heart murmur and I've been put under several times It won't be long now __________________ When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. 8.27.07 -Left ear implanted with HiRes90k 9.17.07 -Activated with Harmony 120! http://contradica.blogspot.com

01-09-2008, 09:37 PM	#17 (permalink)
WBHarley Multitaskin' Wanderin'Mom Join Date: May 2003 Location: Somewhere Posts: 1,378	Skullchick. you will do fine. they just want to take blood, question you few things like your history, medications blah Im sure which you already had it done today dont worry or be afraid about after waking up surgery but like many of us who went thru.. all get various feeling.. Funny thing was.. when I got my first surgery in july 2001.. I felt like I got run over by a truck, and I felt like someone punch my jaw real hard.. This time I just had 2nd surgery on right ear jan 4th.. i woke up feeling pretty good, i though that was odd, dr said its good news, I said the noise etc he said thats good news blah etc im like what the heck are they crazy or what... Few days later.. yesterday I feel like I got run over by a truck but... at same time I came down with cold! what a nasty! just don't get yourself sick, keep yourself germ-free from everyone and be sure to keep update with all of us I rarely post out here but I m wishing you your luck and do share hehe

01-09-2008, 09:43 PM	#18 (permalink)
jillio Banned Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,197	It's getting closer! Good luck to you, Skullchick. Re: the anesthesia....just realx and enjoy the ride!

01-10-2008, 02:50 PM	#19 (permalink)
NickCameron1031 Waiting for CI activation Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Havre de Grace MD Posts: 167	I knew it was coming up soon and i am glad i checked up on here. Good luck to you, thanks for all your help with my issues you have given me. You seem really excited! The anethesia is no big deal, it always reminds me of when i take too much benadryl. HUGS Nick

01-11-2008, 11:24 AM	#20 (permalink)
SkullChick Lil Ci-Borg Chick Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Middle Of Nowhere, Delaware Posts: 635	4 more days! I'm feeling little more relaxed and it still haven't hit me that I'm gonna be implanted and become Ci-borg and join the dark side in 4 days! Its like totally weirdest feeling lol. And I'm sure on activation day I'll laugh and get kick out of it when they stuck magnet on my head and it stick I'll be like "omg it really is there!" and imagine when I first hear sound EEK I have no clue how I'll feel or what its like cuz all result is different I'm excited! Also I got interview for anesthesia stuff like ask me my medical history, allergies, etc and let me ask million questions and they told me they'll give me much stronger sedative than diazepam/valium so I'll be sleepy and hopefully it work like its supposed to this time and I practiced breathing technique to try help me calm down a bit (panic disorder) and I figure while they inject the sedative I will just close m eyes and do that breathing excerise and keep doing that till it kicked in completely then I should be sleepy and relaxed right? Hope that work! Also they want me stay overnight Yuck! Hospital creep me out and imagine at night! I'll probably hallunicate zombie or killer nurses/doctor coming in to kill me LMAO __________________ [Left Ear] Implanted 1/15/08 with Nucleus Freedom! Activated 2/12/08 with Freedom BTE Link for my Cochlear Implant http://skullchick.blogspot.com Link for my Blog unrelated to cochlear Implant http://skullchickworld.blogspot.com

01-11-2008, 02:52 PM	#21 (permalink)
LadySekhmet Cyborg Queen Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Las Vegas! Posts: 621	Hey Skullchick, You'll be fine. I know what you mean by breathing excerises (my bf has panic episodes sometimes, and even I use it if I feel nervous). They will knock you out pretty quickly when you arrive in the OR. They will put in catheter and just inject the sedative (probably will use Propofol this time for you...white stuff). Then you'll just drift off to sleep quickly. The only thing that I did not like waking up was the chills/shaking. I keep getting cold, then hot, cold then hot...that was uncomfortable. Other than that, I'm home, resting, just chillin'. You'll be back to your old self again in no time. Good luck!

01-13-2008, 10:59 PM	#22 (permalink)
Bear Out Of Hibernation Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,026	All I remember is waking up and having a oxygen mask on me which I hated and feeling like I got run over by a mack truck, then they gave me the morphine. Man was I out of it! Then I got back to the room and they gave me more pain pills! LOL talk about flying high!!!! __________________ http://bears-city.myminicity.com/

01-14-2008, 08:26 AM	#23 (permalink)
PuyoPiyo My Property!! >:( Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Fourth Plain Village WA Posts: 5,188	Just wanna to tell SkullChick a good luck for the surgery tomorrow! __________________ Note: Not credit by myself.

01-14-2008, 08:31 AM	#24 (permalink)
SkullChick Lil Ci-Borg Chick Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Middle Of Nowhere, Delaware Posts: 635	Tomorrow! TOMORROW!!! Lol Today's the day I should know what time I go in hospital tmw they'll call my bf or his mother today and they'll tell me I'll update again tonight or morning before idk we'll see, not nervous yet, strange I usually get nervous way before any prodecure cuz I'm nervous person! Lol weird indeed! Hm well except for like 1 second if I think too much I get slight knot in my stomach but I tell myself "stop, relax don't get nervous I'll be fine and try stay calm long as possible till anesthesia kicked in" lol its kinda hard cuz I'm anxious, nervous type person and its TOMORROW!! Lol so strange that I'm getting surgery and get implanted, its like surreal like it have to be dream not reality. Weirdest feeling ever lol Later tonight maybe 9-10 pm I'll update my blog with time of surgery for tomorrow and whatever else if they mentioned something and my feeling about whole thing like if I get nervous yet LOL And next time I update blog will be probably day after surgery since I'm staying overnight if I'm up to it and if not I'll just update on here alldeaf its easier on my sidekick my blog won't let me sign on for some reason shrug Thanks you all for support and answering my questions :-) -Amy __________________ [Left Ear] Implanted 1/15/08 with Nucleus Freedom! Activated 2/12/08 with Freedom BTE Link for my Cochlear Implant http://skullchick.blogspot.com Link for my Blog unrelated to cochlear Implant http://skullchickworld.blogspot.com

01-14-2008, 06:41 PM	#25 (permalink)
SkullChick Lil Ci-Borg Chick Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Middle Of Nowhere, Delaware Posts: 635	Time! i got time for my surgery its at 9 am eastern time, but i have to be at hospital at 7 am ugh hate get up so early cuz im always so starving if i wake up before 10 am so everything seem to be going perfectly and im still calm and not nervous at all yet so hopefully that stay that way when i go in lol we'll see i just need not to think about it and tell myself to relax and its ok or think positive things like 'wow soon i will be able to hear my boyfriend, kitty meowing, music i dont care if sound bad i just want hear it again etc -Amy __________________ [Left Ear] Implanted 1/15/08 with Nucleus Freedom! Activated 2/12/08 with Freedom BTE Link for my Cochlear Implant http://skullchick.blogspot.com Link for my Blog unrelated to cochlear Implant http://skullchickworld.blogspot.com

01-14-2008, 06:50 PM	#26 (permalink)
Blazing Sunset Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Georgia Posts: 130	SkullChick: Congratulations and good luck with your surgery! Keep us posted! __________________ *Blazing Sunset* Left Ear - Nucleus Freedom Implanted: Feb. 15, 2007 Activated: Feb. 26, 2007 The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

01-14-2008, 06:56 PM	#27 (permalink)
shel90 Sun Whorshipper Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: A Desert Rat that has found herself in Maryland Posts: 16,155 Blog Entries: 1	Wow! Good luck! __________________ ~Shel~ "A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." -George Santayana

01-14-2008, 09:19 PM	#28 (permalink)
contradica Contradica Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New Jersey Posts: 359