@Sophs50522 Ugh, that really stinks about getting a cochlear implant only after going completely deaf. In US you have to be no higher than 60% hearing in your other ear with a hearing aid. I barely made it at 59%.
If your surgery is successful, with rehab you can gain hearing back in your deaf ear. It’s a bit different, but your brain adjusts to it. Every country is different. My opinion, but I think waiting to gondeaf is harming a candidate because it might make rehab more difficult. Your hearing ear is hearing sounds, speech that through the sound processor and implant your brain will re-acquaint your ear to the way the word sounds.Hope that makes sense. Your brain won’t have to work as hard to recognize the sound or word. It might be because everyone is covered by insurance and they don’t want to incur the expense. It’s expensive.
I know it’s hard to believe now, but you will get used to one sided hearing. I wasn’t wearing my hearing aids when it happened to me so I initially couldn’t hear anything. Two days later I tried my hearing aids, nothing in one ear and relief and joy when I put the other aid in. I could hear, I wasn’t completly deaf. I’m grateful for that. Just take it slowly, one day at a time. Don’t dwell on it, that makes it worse. Keep us up to date.