Monday, November 8th, 2004
Well, to make a long story short, a few days before October 11th, we received the news that the particular implant I was scheduled to recieve was recalled by the company that makes it, due to manufacturing defects. Basically what happened was, during the manufacturing, some of the implants ended up with moisture inside them and this has been causing some people’s implants to malfunction even a year after the date of implantation. When this happens to someone, they have to go through another surgery to get it replaced. So the implants were sent back from all the clinics to the manufacturer to be put through more testing to make sure they wouldn’t malfunction, and as of right now, are on their way back to the clinics.
So, I didn’t get implanted, as the surgery was called off until further notice. Since they are just now getting sent back to the clinics, I am still waiting to hear when my new surgery date will be.
Shortly after we received this news, the company that makes my implant actually Fed-Ex’d me a letter basically saying “It is possible the implant you currently have may malfunction, here are signs to look for and what to do in the event that this happens”. Yay. I’m praying I’m not one of them, because I do NOT want to go through surgery for what will be a third time after I get the second implant.
So that’s the CI news!
