We love GBMC

We could not have asked for a more perfect day yesterday. Our trip to GBMC took only one hour and we didn't have to pay turnpike tolls either! Even Noah enjoyed the trip. We met with our audiologist and she was the nicest person. The CI program at GBMC is smaller than the one at CHOP, but this makes for much more personal attention. Our audiologist was genuinely interested in both Isaac and Noah. She got out a slew of toys and spread them on the carpet for Noah to play with while we talked about Isaac. The whole vibe at GBMC seemed friendlier to me than we are used to. Instead of only telling us what we need to improve on with Isaac's speech, we received lots of positive re-enforcement. We did a little bit of testing in the sound booth and we got wonderful responses from Isaac across the board. Isaac was so attentive that she was able to get responses from him at the 15-25 db range. I credit the audiologist for keeping Isaac's attention by playing games with him that encourage his full participation. She was so good with him. We selected the processors that we are interested in for his 2nd implant. We are choosing 2 beige for him because he already has 2 blue. She let us know that they could re-program his other blue processor so he could wear it on his newly implanted ear. After we left the audiologist, we were on to meet our surgeon. We had another smooth meeting (well as smooth as could possibly be for keeping a 3 year old and a 1 year old entertained in the waiting rooms). After looking at Isaac's CAT scan from 2 years ago, the Dr. said that Isaac's left ear would actually be the easier of the two to implant. He was excited about that. He was shocked as well with CHOP's recent suspension of the bi-lateral program. He is very excited to operate on Isaac and we are waiting for the surgical scheduler to call us with a surgery date. He said it would be one to two months from now. The only concern I have is that for 2 days, Isaac has to wear a bandage on his head and it could be difficult to put his existing processor on his head. Does anyone have any experience with this? It would be difficult if he couldn't hear anything for 2 days until he can take his bandage off. We are very excited about GBMC. It is a true answer to prayer.