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Oh dear, this is not what i wanted to hear…
From the website of the company that made my implant, and which is the very same one that is the subject of this recently announced action:
http://funnyoldlife.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/3dee13b8-dccb-11e0-bdec-3e9a655fb7c9_cochlearmonday.pdf
(via Tina Lannin’s blog: I Look So I Can Hear.)
This follows a major recall by another cochlear implant maker, Advanced Bionics, which it is only just emerging out of now.
This has put something of a dampener on my excitement about the swtich-on tomorrow. Still, going by the company’s figures, my implant has a 99.4% chance of working ok, which can’t be too bad.