Tuesday, May 13th 10:30am
Next, Mommy, Daddy and I go into a new room, with fancy machinery and a special chair right in the middle.
Someone I have never seen before, Dr.Backous, comes in and I make sure to give him my best not-so-sure-about-you-stranger look. That always gets me a laugh from the grown ups. But, pretty soon, I am sure that he is okay, so I go back to my normal busy-bee activities and smiling and giggling like I've known him forever.
Here's a picture of Dr.Backous:
He's very nice. He, Daddy and Mommy looked at a disc on the computer that had pictures of my brain and ears from a test called an MR/CT scan.
Dr.B thinks that everything looks good in there and that physically I am good to go for the Cochlear Implant. Cool.
Next, I get to meet the nicest nurse I have ever met. Her name is Miss Kim and she is wonderful. She sat me in her lap and I got to read magazines with her. She even let me rip the pages. Which I REALLY love to do. Mommy never lets me rip pages. She talked to me and kept me busy while Mommy and Daddy talked to the doctor some more.
Dr.Backous asked why we were here and Mommy shot off the longest statement ever about my language delay, my at age-level aptitude everywhere else and about Auditory Neuropathy being too much to over come with hearing aids. I wasn't sure she was ever going to stop--she's been fighting with my other doctors for a while, who refuse to help me, so you should hear her go on. She ended her statement with "She's ready. We're ready." Dr. Backous then said, then, "We're ready, too." He said, "I don't want her to go another day without hearing." letting us know that he would make time on his schedule as early as possible, because he wants to help me so much! Wow. That brought more tears to Mommy's eyes--because that is what she has been praying for this whole time. Help for me so that I will be able to hear clearly and learn to speak.
Daddy asked what timeframe he'd be looking at, thinking that June would just be so amazingly soon...when Dr. Backous says, "how about next week?"
The room got very still while Mommy and Daddy took this all in. Well--still everywhere except for me, who never stops wiggling.
Doctor filled out tons of paperwork and said that we'd have to check my immunizations---yeah-I don't think so. I hate shots. But that he'd start the insurance authorization so we'd be set for next week. I've never seen Mommy so quiet around a Doctor. She usually talks and talks and talks and talks. Must have been really good news today! She's all talked out!
We left the office with the promise that a call would come Thursday after the team meeting where they will discuss my case and finalize the schedule, offering us a date for surgery.
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