In a way, I’m surprised it hasn’t happened until now. I can remember as far back as Thanksgiving fighting the battle of the headpiece, where the small (not much larger around than a quarter) microphone/magnet/trasmitter of Danny’s cochlear implant randomly falls off and gets lost in all the strangest places.
It’s been lost in the strangest place of all now: nowhere.
Where, oh, where are you??
He’s been ripping them off and dropping them lately, a toddler attitude problem that is a combination of “I don’t want to hear what you’re saying” and “I want attention” that never fails to get people running over to him. So, when Danny went to open the gate between the toddler and 2 year old sides of his room at daycare, they told him no and he yanked them off.
He dropped them, and one was gone.
They’ve searched high and low. We’ve torn the rooms apart. Heck, the area director helped them look for it today. Still, it’s missing. Thankfully, being bilateral means that Danny’s still got sound, and he’s doing a great job with just the one. However, that’s a $375 piece of equipment, and we’d really rather he have two. On the positive side, it was lost inside. Imagine what could have happened if he’d lost it, say, in the yard…
So we’re down to one ear for a while. Next week we’ll look into replacements – how to get one, if we have an “oops” on our warranty, that sort of thing. But for this weekend, I’m just praying that he doesn’t lose the other one too.
