Yesterday was my day of testing to get ready for the cochlear implant! From 8am to 7pm I had lots of testing to do to get ready for my big day! My audiologist is WONDERFUL! She is so supportive, upbeat, encouraging, and is excited for me to get the implants. The hearing test was so short-I couldn’t hear anything but every now and then feel vibrations like you would feel with a freight train as they go by. I also had to do a lip-reading tests. She would speak a sentence and I would repeat them back to her. She said 20 sentence lines to me and I only missed ONE WORD!! I think those games of “Read my lips” paid off! Ha! (But really it was all those years of speech therapy!) So after al the testing done, we were getting excited to meet with the doctor to see which ear we are going to do the implants in. He ushered us into a room to look at the MRI to see how the bone structure looks of my ears. He said it all looked great, but he was concerned about this stuff on top of my skull that is not supposed to be there……my mind went blank when he said that! He then said that it is a big infection that is close to my eyes and if not taken care of, I could go blind. My mouth just dropped open! We came here to get implants for my ears to find that I could go blind?! But this infection explains all the horrible headaches I have had behind my eyes that I thought was due to allergy seasons! So the plan is to get on several medications right now to see if we can get the infection gone in four weeks. Then I go in for a CAT scan to see the diagnosis of the infection, if it is not gone, then I will have to go for surgery to take care of this. The cochlear implants are on hold until we get this infection take care of. I have learned two things by the end of this day:
- God is in control! He has and will continue to take care of me! He went before me and allowed my doctor to see this infection in preparation for my cochlear implants on my CAT scan! What a blessing!! I have been singing today “What a mighty God we serve….”
- I have an amazing husband! He loves me so much and is excited for me to have implants and supports me by walking all the way back to the hospital to retrieve information that the doctor needed so we can know the diagnosis of that “something” that wasn’t supposed to be there that very same hour! I love you honey!
Please be in prayers that this infection will go away through medication and I wouldn’t have to get the surgery! (But if it comes to that, then God will once again provide!) Until then, my hearing world is on hold!
