You're lucky to be alive. But lack of lipreading and coping experience may make the residual hearing functionally useless. Usually, these people know going into the hospital that they will be deaf when they come out. Forewarned does not necessarily mean forearmed, though, either in the case of the patient or the hospital. Although you'd think that they would get some mental health preparation and ample technical support with the luxury of advance warning, it seems that the general approach is not much better than for those struck by The Virus.
Bionic ears have nothing to offer a severed auditory nerve.
In addition to deafness, NF-2 requires coping with numerous operations. Traumatic Traumatic losses are incurred in a wide variety of exciting and adventurous ways, from motorcycle riding to settling an argument in the alley behind a bar. Rather than assist the patient to function without hearing, acceptance of deafness may be discouraged because deafness is temporary in some trauma cases. False hopes, nurtured by the medical experts, don't evaporate painlessly. The long-term therapy and treatment for any other concurrent injuries can be more difficult with new deafness.