The family of a young Cork twin fitted with a bionic ear were celebrating yesterday as the boy arrived home with the fully fitted device.
The outer attachments of the device could not be fitted until three-year-old Calum Geary, from Ballyhooley, north Cork, had recovered from a chest infection.
His parents, Helen and Andrew Geary, had spent the previous two days with Calum at Manchester University Hospital, programming the pioneering device that will allow him to hear.
Born with a condition called cochlear nerve aplasia, Calum is missing all the nerves between each ear and the brain, as well as his balance nerves.
“Calum got the outer attachments fitted today. We are all delighted here,” his father said before leaving Manchester to come home yesterday.