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There have been many times when I have discussed this appliance, my processor, but really, didn't stop to give one a better picture of what it's all about.
I presently have the BAHA 3. My one and only has been updated every time it has been shipped off for repair from He-Who-Touched-My-Brain's Clinic. I have been enjoying this processor more than ever before.
The BAHA, is located and placed behind my left Deaf ear. With the latest operation doctor extended the abutment to better accommodate my BAHA. This also required the removal of an inch or so of my flesh around the site of my implant - which is implanted into my skull. So, my skull and the implant which is titanium are like one in the same. Just different colours. I have two or three awesome scars. One that rivers down along the side of my scalp. I also have a Pirate type of scar where it's like so obvious and one can see the amount of stitch scars. This side of my skull and I have gone through a lot of changes since way back 2008. This was when we busted my skull open for the first time. I say 'we' because it was my thick ass scalp and skull that gave my wonderful doctor such a difficult time - every time. It has always been, He, Dr.-Who-Puts-Me-To-Sleep and the extraordinary ladies in the operating room to get me through each and every operation there at Tampa General Hospital. Awesomely safe and secure, which is so important to me when some body's about to knock me out and carve up the left side of my head. Every time! He-Who-Touched, has had to crack it, saw it, snip it and sew it, he has done so with my Blessings. I have kissed the Right Good Doctor's very hands. These are the only hands on this planet that have touched my brain. Thus, my heart...
...I am thinking that this fine Doctor is a Blessing for me. It is because of his counsel and our face to face's that we have built and established a damned good health care team. And a fine and tough fighting 'Better Health Care Team' vs. The Meniere's Disease.
The BAHA and it's site of implant is what I refer to as my third ear. Yes, child, it has to be cleaned daily just like the other two, en'it? Okay then. The BAHA's processor picks up sounds and noises and transfers them via bone conduction to my right-good-bad-ear. It is this ear, according to He-Who-Touched-My-Brain, that will prevent me from ever going 100% Deaf. Which sounds like a trick question/answer to my simple way of thinking. I mean, if I lose hearing I have lost hearing -
- just because we place another Cochlear Ear Implant doesn't assure me that I'll never be 100% Out Of Sound. When the processor is removed from my left Deaf ear. My left ear is Deaf. So it makes sense to me that when the Cochlear is removed, my right ear too, will be out of sound.
Wait! Stop dammit!
This latest BAHA 3 has provided me with the best results thus far along this journey...
...my Path.
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