What is exactly involved in the surgery?

Here is a good link with a brief sketch of the cochlear implant surgery (you'll have to cut and paste the links into your URL, sorry):

http://deafness.about.com/od/basicsofcochlearimplants/a/cisurgery.htm

Also a video:

http://video.about.com/deafness/Cochlear-Implants.htm

I am getting excited about this...