Another note from my sister about my niece:

We met with the surgeon yesterday who will do the operation to give Masen her new cochlear implant. He told me that the operation will actually take LONGER than the first one because there is bone growth that he has to work around in her skull. She will also notice the pain more than the 1st time because she is older–babies apparently just roll with the pain, because the first time she was up and playing as soon as they removed the IV with the morphine drip! So those 2 things were much different than the what we heard from the audiologist. Masen also won’t have to spend the night in the hospital, but will come home right after surgery, which seems completely crazy to me! She’ll be on oral pain meds, and it will be rough, he said. Sort-of a throbbing in her skull for several days. Apparently all the people who got implants from the same “batch” as Masen’s will have their implants fail as well due to a moisture problem inside the implant. So you can be praying for those families as well–we’re talking a LOT of people nationwide, about 20 here in GR alone. BUT, the good news is that we might have the chance to join in a research study on a new (computer) program to give Masen even better hearing than before. I’m calling the audiologist today to see if we can be in on that study; Dr. Daniels (our surgeon) asked if we would like to join, and I sure hope we can! We’re still on for the 29th of Sept–thank you for all your prayers! They are GREATLY appreciated!
Love,
Tiffany