I am curious. Does a hearing aid give you any speech at all with this ear? My thoughts are if that ear does function a CI just might work for you. Have you had a CI evaluation?
@Deaf_piper Sheryl, I totally understand your point and agree to most degrees but we have read about success stories of CI helping with some who lost most of their hearing for many years. It usually took a lot of rehabilitation but helped with speech and localization. The surgeon wants to have a successful surgery, no failures.
This is very much a part of why many get nervous about CI. For the most part CI is very successful. There are circumstances that lower the success rate of CI. These issues put surgeons on the alert and don’t want to take the chance of failure even when it could help the patient. Many who are on the fence about CI are very aware of these failures and it makes them sceptical about getting CI.