One Step Closer

Although the cochlear implant team did not get a chance to review Audrena's case last Wednesday, we received the dates for our battery of pre-op appointments and the go-ahead to order hearing aids. Our appointments will happen over the course of two half-days at the end of the month. We have been given the approval to have Dr. M. at USD handle our hearing aid trials, so we can also get moving on that, too. VERY tentatively, we could possibly be looking at mid-June for Audrena's first surgery. We are both excited and scared. Let me tell you, we will be so happy to be past this point in our lives. We can handle the tons and tons of therapy sessions. It's the surgery that makes us nervous, even though many people have told us it's not really all that major. It's major to us because she is our baby girl! But we both agree that we need to give Audrena the chance to hear.