{"id":2072,"date":"2012-10-09T12:13:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T11:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2012-10-09T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T11:14:43","slug":"william-mager-is-having-a-cochlear-implant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2012\/10\/09\/william-mager-is-having-a-cochlear-implant\/","title":{"rendered":"William Mager is having a Cochlear Implant."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wlmager.com\/blog\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">And he&#8217;s going to blog about the experience.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Tuesday 6th November at around 7.30am I\u2019ll be in a hospital room while a surgeon uses a marker pen to draw a line behind my ear. Soon after that, I\u2019ll be wheeled into an operating theatre where they\u2019ll make a small incision behind my ear, following the line of marker pen ink.<\/p>\n<p>Once they\u2019ve opened a flap of skin behind my ear, they\u2019re going to drill into my skull, until they reach my inner ear. They\u2019ll then hollow out a small cavity in the flesh beneath the ear flap, where they will insert a piece of technology worth about \u00a310,000. Into the hole in my skull goes a tiny electrode extending all the way into my inner ear, with around 20 or more individual contacts stimulating my cochlear. Hopefully the general anaesthetic will do its job and I won\u2019t feel any of this while it\u2019s happening, because I\u2019ve seen pictures of this procedure and it looks pretty painful.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When I\u2019m switched on six weeks after the operation, I have no idea what will happen. Either I\u2019ll feel a faint buzzing in my skull, or hear consonants for the first time. Either way, the hard work starts after that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Subscribe!<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a film-maker in real life: so while you&#8217;re waiting for the next post, have a look at some of his films.\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/27085545\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">This one<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0takes only a couple of minutes to show how there&#8217;s really very little that deaf people can&#8217;t do&#8230; er&#8230;\u00a0so long as the&#8230; um&#8230; support is&#8230; as long as&#8230;\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Watch it, anyway.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And he&#8217;s going to blog about the experience. On Tuesday 6th November at around 7.30am I\u2019ll be in a hospital room while a surgeon uses a marker pen to draw a line behind my ear. Soon after that, I\u2019ll be wheeled into an operating theatre where they\u2019ll make a small incision behind my ear, following [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2012\/10\/09\/william-mager-is-having-a-cochlear-implant\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[577,576],"tags":[1856],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource","category-the-art-of-medicine","tag-enhancement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}