Moving forward toward IMPLANTS!

I just got off a pretty extensive phone call with the audiologist from the E.N.T. office. Now that we have confirmation that Troy has cochlea and they seem to be implantable, we can take these next few steps.

1) An evaluation with Troy's hearing aids with the audiologist at the hospital

2) A speech and language evaluation with the audiologist at the hospital (yes, I know this doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. These audiologists with be meeting with Troy once a month after his implant to work on speech, so they need a starting point).

3) Audiologists fax the ENT's office their results

4) ENT submits and gets approval from our insurance for BILATERAL implants. The audiologist said she has not had any problems getting approval for bilaterals from Priority Health (our insurance co).
~For those of you who don't know: bilateral implants are a HUGE deal. This is GREAT news and insurance companies in our area have just started to approve bilaterals in the last year! Troy will be the 2nd kid at his deaf school with bilaterals! This is a HUGE deal!~

5) If all of this can be done by late September we will have surgery OCTOBER 14, 2009!!!!

Please say your prayers that all of this goes as planned. These next few steps should go off without a problem. My biggest fear is the insurance company, but the audiologist saying that she's not had any problems reassures me.