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General Category => Hearing Issues => Topic started by: tenai98 on August 28, 2009, 01:58:15 pm

Title: Baha surgery next month if alll goes well
Post by: tenai98 on August 28, 2009, 01:58:15 pm

Just saw ENT and audiologist and if they can, they will get me in early Sept for the BAHA surgery.  If not it will have to wait til I'm done vacationing in Mexico for month of Jan 10 and month of March i10 in Florida.  I was told I have to keep it dry for at least 3 months. was also told about the skin graft and tha the wound is not pretty while it is healing....
JO

Title: Re: Baha surgery next month if alll goes well
Post by: cindyj on August 28, 2009, 02:34:00 pm

Great news for you, JO!  I hope they can get you in before your traveling starts.  Will be curious to know how the BAHA works out for you - know so many just love it!

Cindy

Title: Re: Baha surgery next month if alll goes well
Post by: leapyrtwins on August 28, 2009, 07:21:23 pm

Quote from: tenai98 on August 28, 2009, 01:58:15 pm

I was told I have to keep it dry for at least 3 months. was also told about the skin graft and tha the wound is not pretty while it is healing....
JO

All these differences fascinate me.  I had to keep my BAHA site dry for only about a week or so. 

And my wound wasn't too bad looking while it was healing.  It was very itchy but that's about it.

I guess I had a "skin graft" but I wouldn't really call it that.  My doc just cut a flap of skin, lifted it up, folded it back, removed the hair follicles and some of the tissue from my head, drilled the hole into my skull, sank the titanium abutment, cut an "X" in the skin flap and placed it back over the abutment.  Then he stitched me up.

90 days later the abutment had calcified and I was able to attach my Divino  ;D

Jan