January 4, 2011. By the beginning of the year, my husband was still very skeptical/reluctant/annoyed-at-me-for-wanting-to-talk-about-it about doing any surgery. I felt like I was twisting his arm. He indicated that he needed to learn more and get comfortable with the idea - so he scheduled a phone consultation with Dr. Roberson on January 4. We talked to several other families across the country that went through with both surgeries to hear about their experiences. Those conversations were very good, because we heard about the realities and challenges of going through with the surgeries. They were not sugar-coated conversations.
Devin. Also, through Dr. Lewin, we got hooked up with another LA family whose son, Devin, had bilateral microtia and was close to Ben's age and who had completed canalplasty and microtia repair on both ears with Drs. Roberson and Lewin. We had a play date with Devin in February 2011 that was really fun - especially since Ben didn't know that Devin had microtia when he had already started to jump around and play with him - and then at some point - Ben whispered to me: "Don't tell him I have a little ear." To which I said, "OK. But do you know that Devin had TWO little ears?" Then, Ben lit up and said, "REALLY?" And then Devin showed Ben his ears. And there was an instant bond!
