Guest guest Posted April 4, 2006 Report Posted April 4, 2006 In a message dated 4/4/2006 6:16:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, hurstk_2000@... writes: I will let you know when he is turned on in May how it really works and how he likes it!! Thanks!!! Please do! Ian is such a mixed bag of stuff that it's hard to know where the future is taking us. He may have something called otoschlerosis ... a condition that can eat the middle ear bones. From what I understand, a spongy growth consumes them. It is usually located in certain area and doesn't move around, but there is a form that can move from the middle to the inner ear thus destroying the cochlea. So far that's not the case. So, for now a stapedectomy (replacing the damaged stapes with a prosthetic bone) is a future option once puberty and hormones are done maturing and thickening the footplate that sits against the cochlea where the stapes bone rests/touches it. If not that, then perhaps a BAHA or a CI may become viable. Or perhaps Ian will choose to have no more surgery ever. Only time will tell and we'll support his choice whatever it is. He's 15 now ... my decision making days are about over. I'm soon to become merely a consultant in these issues. Best -- Jill Quote
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