That is great news! This means that as he learns
language, he will have hearing to help him.

Do make sure, though, to have him learn sign and to
learn it as a family, too. Many hearing families are
now teaching sign to their babies because babies can
sign words and sentences long before they can say
them, because it takes a while for the mouth and
tongue to develop enough for language. A baby who can
say what he needs is happier than one who must cry at
you and hope you can guess what's wrong.

Jo, one of the founders of the original deaf board,
had an implant, you know. She was very happy with it.




--- lauraandmyson <lauraandmyson@...> wrote:

> Very exciting news. We met with the surgeon
> yesterday and he says
> that Brian's cochlea is perfect. Nothing wrong
> there so we can go
> ahead and have the surgery without complications
> (hopefully). He's
> seemed like a very nice guy. He said that the
> person who had a baby
> was ahead of us and had just had the surgery last
> week. If he would
> have known we were in the waiting room, he would
> have let us see the
> incision he made on the other baby to show us there
> is no scarring
> behind the ear. Anyways, our surgery is set for
> June 9. The pre-opt
> is June 1. We will meet with the anasthesiologist
> that day as well as
> the rest of the other physicians that will be
> monitoring Brian in the
> room. They monitor the facial nerve to make sure
> there is no facial
> paralysis. As the doctor was describing all that
> was going to happen,
> I was about to break down and cry all over again. I
> just want to get
> this over with so I can have a "hearing" child
> again.
>
>
>
>
>



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