What an experience. A five hour operation, and - as the picture suggests - I was feeling pretty rough immediately after the whole thing. The length of surgery meant that I had to stay overnight, which was unexpected - I'd planned on being home straight away. (The wretched picture is taken in dim light on the only thing I had to hand, a mobile phone! And yes I had pretty much just sat up after surgery that minute. Not the most appetising image or advertisement for surgery at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital). As ever the staff and specialist clinicians were both professional and caring. Now all we need is for the aggravated tinnitus to stall for a bit, the pain to subside and the activation to take place...and then a slow and winding road to regaining some hearing or sense of sound from there.
Anyway the implant is in, two weeks to clinic appointment and a period of rest and recovery until then. No date yet for activation, but I'll take it one day at a time.
Anyway the implant is in, two weeks to clinic appointment and a period of rest and recovery until then. No date yet for activation, but I'll take it one day at a time.
I've joined the CI tribe.
