CD, maybe emphasize that you're perilingal (you went deaf at two right? Perilingal means that you lost your hearing while aquirring language) It's possible that the people in charge of Mediaid may think you're prelingal and see implanting you as a high risk that may not be "cost effective"
Point out that you did have hearing with an aid for quite a few years, and your brain knows how to process sound. It's still a big ? as to how much benifit you'll get with CI, since you've been deaf for many years, BUT you would seem to be a better canidate then someone who is prelingally deaf and hasn't worn hearing aids for a while.
