The fun just keeps coming...!

We had David’s CI consult and both kids’ hearing checks today. Good news -- neither kid had a major loss over the last 1 ½ weeks. David had a small amount of loss in his left (“good”) ear that will require a HA adjustment, but nothing across the board. He even had one ten decibel improvement in his “bad” ear (these ‘improvements’ never last long, but it’s much better than a loss!). As soon as David has his CT scan on Thursday, we are ready to start insurance approval – the very last step of preparation for his CI. Otherwise, we are ready to go. The tentative date is late Jan.-early Feb., as we expected. Interesting news -- David’s tonsils have continued to worsen, and on the surgeon’s scale of 1-4 (good-terrible), David’s are at a 4. The complication comes because people with a CI can not have electro-cauterization (which is the standard for an adenoidectomy/tonsillectomy, greatly reducing the danger of bleeding), because that procedure would “fry” the implant. All that to say that they need to take David’s tonsils out BEFORE the CI…and he needs one month of recovery between the two. The doctor doesn’t want anything to delay the CI surgery, so…next week David will be getting a tonsillectomy! Can you even believe it?! Have we ever mentioned that it’s never boring around the McKee household?! Please be praying that David will stay healthy between now and then so that his surgery is not delayed…