First: the choice to get a Cochlear implant is a personal choice. These are my views alone.
*If an adult chooses this surgery I have no problems with that. They are old enough to understand what they are doing, the risks and the pain of surgery and the possible outcomes.
*When an infant or child has this surgery the choice is completely taken from them. I dont feel that this is a choice that a parent has the right to make in regards to thier child. Here is why:
- They wont be experiencing the physical pain, its easier to make a choice like this when you yourself are not going through it, even though I do understand it is hard to watch a loved one do it
- What if years down the road the device "craps out" or they have it removed? believe it or not this happens more than you think. If a person has grown up with this device they become reliant on it, what happens when they no longer have it? My friend Tyson was 25 years old when he recieved his implant, if something happened he knows how to live "deaf".
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