{"id":2153,"date":"2018-07-09T10:33:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T14:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agaaga1.wordpress.com\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2018-07-09T10:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T14:33:06","slug":"cochlear-implant-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/2018\/07\/09\/cochlear-implant-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cochlear Implant Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saying goodbye at 9AM.<\/p>\n

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Pre-op wipedown – the towels were warmed but it was still chilly.<\/p>\n

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Bruce Lee!<\/p>\n

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All done.<\/p>\n

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Vitals check.<\/p>\n

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And now we wait …<\/p>\n

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He’s reading Dr Proctor’s Fart Powder.<\/p>\n

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And then we’re off! I stayed with him in the OR until he fell asleep. He had to smell the anesthetist’s “smelly socks” \ud83d\ude1b There were no needles until he was asleep.<\/p>\n

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And then we wait … he’s BR, F.<\/p>\n

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The surgery took 4 hours and went perfectly according to the surgeon (Dr Papsin of the Sick Kids Cochlear Implant program<\/a>). Because Felix had some natural hearing, he implanted a different type of electrode (CI532<\/a>) in an attempt to preserve any residual hearing.<\/p>\n

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Waking up in recovery.<\/p>\n

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He was then transferred to a room with Kaci, the Cochlear<\/a> Koala.<\/p>\n

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He was starving but had to prove he could keep food down before he could be discharged.<\/p>\n

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Heading home at 7:45PM.<\/p>\n

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Saying goodbye at 9AM. Pre-op wipedown – the towels were warmed but it was still chilly. Bruce Lee! All done. Vitals check. And now we wait … He’s reading Dr Proctor’s Fart Powder. And then we’re off! I stayed with him in the OR until he fell asleep. He had to smell the anesthetist’s “smelly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-felix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}