Thanks, everybody!
They took me into the operating room, asked me to scoot over to the operating table from my bed, and then I went *poof* I don't even remember being put to sleep at all, and next thing I knew, the nurses were waking me. I was like, damn, over already?! And the pain was AWFUL! They rushed to give me morpine and some meds for my nausea. I did ask for anti-nausea meds before the surgery, but I still got sick anyway. I threw up and I was was bleeding from my mouth and had a nosebleed too. They told me that this is normal because they had intubated me and when they did it the tube scratched my throat. I am not too surprised about the nosebleed, I get nosebleeds easily, they were frequent when I was a child, so I am not surprised. I was in ALOT of pain for about 2 hours, but getting better gradually. After the 2 hours the pain went down a LOT and localized to my left ear area and left side of my neck...I went home at about 8ish...
I only have pain in left ear area and left side of neck right now. Abel has gone to the pharmacy to get my prescriptions - Tylenol with codeine and antibotics that I'm to take 3x a day for 10 days. I prefer sitting up rather than laying dow because it seems to relieve some of the pressure and some of the pain in my ear area. I was actually sitting up right after surgery because laying down was making me sick! Sitting up helped me a LOT.
I had 2 interpreters for the surgery...the one I had right before my surgery SUCKED ASS! And get this....she is a CODA, but her signs are SO SLOPPY! But they said she was the only one available. She whined about how they did not tell her that she'd be at the hospital all day, that she thought she'd only be there for a couple hours. Whatever.
BUT...I got an excellent interpreter right after surgery, and he was wonderful and has great signing skills. I was very very very impressed with him. In fact, I'm extremely impressed with everybody involved in the surgery, the docs, the nurses, etc. Everyone was so nice.
Well I better go back to bed and rest, I'm waiting for Abel to get back with my meds because my neck is hurting.
and take easy on urself and psstt did make you feel high??
t'care
I haven't done that yet, because I wanna see how you're doing first. Yes, You could say I'm still being chicken about it. 
Cheri. I'll Lucia answer this more indepth, but it might be that through studies, they've learned that they can activate patients sooner? That'd be my guess, anyway.
for you.
Bear been telling me where I could get my hearing test done, So, I just have to call and make that appt. What am I waiting for?! 
