Countdown

2 weeks and counting!!

I really wanted today to be activation day, only because it's 11-10-09 and I have a weird thing about numbers. That would be so easy to remember! (I can't even remember my own wedding date because I didn't pick good numbers.) Instead, we're going to Johns Hopkins on November 24. Five whole weeks after surgery.

I thought it would be five long, torturous weeks of her missing her right hearing aid. Instead she hasn't seemed to care much and we barely notice a difference of her hearing with one ear versus two. She only asked once for the aid. I told her it was broken and she moved on. Now she likes to say, "I have one aid and one CI! My ears very pretty!!!!!!"

Now I'm nervous to get the CI and ditch the left hearing aid for 3 months. Sometimes I think it will be a piece of cake, since absolutely everything else about this process has been. But then I think that maybe it's payback time and this is where it will get difficult. There's nothing I can do about it so I don't really waste time worrying. (Those who don't know much about implants can read Advanced Bionics' description of activation day.)

We'll see the audiologist the afternoon of the 24th for the inital programming. We asked for our follow up appointment to be the next morning so we can just spend the night rather than make two round trips to Baltimore. We'll go back soon after that for more adjustments. Each time we'll "turn it up" and refine the maps (programming). And then we'll go to the cafeteria and eat delicious pudding, my reward for behaving on the long car ride.