Surgery tomorrow!

The worst is over. Enjoy the quiet and get ready to enjoy the sounds.

I'm sitting typing hearing a banging sound. I thought someone is knocking on my door. No it was the neighbor in the next apartment hanging up pictures. I did not even know I had new neighbors :)
 
As of yesterday I'm now off painkillers during the day. I'm only taking panadol (same as tylernol I think) at night time. This surgery has been quite a contrast to the last one in terms of being back on my feet. Still no dizziness!
I also like to sleep on my implanted side. I get less of a sore neck and my ear seems to feel better. I have a theory that the incision gets access to the bloodflow through gravity which helps it!

How is everyone else feeling today? Don't be afraid to moan or groan!
 
contradica said:
I'm feeling pretty good today, I'm off the pain pills and today I took only one tylenol. YAY! Tomorrow I get the stitches taken out, I can't wait to wash my hair. The only thing I am moaning about is the fullness feeling in the ear. It feels like there is cotton balls stuck in there. That is annoying.
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That is great! I hope the stitch removal is relatively painless. On Friday I go to the local doctor to get the steristrips taken off and for him to look at the incision to make sure everything is okay.

I don't have so much a full feeling but a feeling that I have a clamp behind my ear LOL! Where is your incision positioned? Mine is right along the crease of the back of the ear.
 
R2D2 said:
As of yesterday I'm now off painkillers during the day. I'm only taking panadol (same as tylernol I think) at night time. This surgery has been quite a contrast to the last one in terms of being back on my feet. Still no dizziness!
I also like to sleep on my implanted side. I get less of a sore neck and my ear seems to feel better. I have a theory that the incision gets access to the bloodflow through gravity which helps it!

How is everyone else feeling today? Don't be afraid to moan or groan!
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I'm going to call you Tigger. You bounced back quick. :) I think if I ever move to Australia I am in for a world of change. :) How do you sleep on your implanted side? The top of my ear is still numb and it hurts to lay on it. I unintentionally rolled over on my left side while I was sleeping and it woke me up, painfully I must say. Do you just muster up the pain for a while until it subsides or doesn't it hurt at all?
 
contradica said:
I'm going to call you Tigger. You bounced back quick. :) I think if I ever move to Australia I am in for a world of change. :) How do you sleep on your implanted side? The top of my ear is still numb and it hurts to lay on it. I unintentionally rolled over on my left side while I was sleeping and it woke me up, painfully I must say. Do you just muster up the pain for a while until it subsides or doesn't it hurt at all?
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Tigger.....I like that! With sleeping on the implanted side, it does hurt initially but then the pain subsides quickly as my neck muscles relax from the support of the pillow. I notice that if I sleep on the non implanted side I feel more sore as the muscles are straining to support the incision. Maybe it's to do with the shape of the incision?

The top of my ear is still numb too but not painful.

I'm off for a bounce now. Boooinnnng! Booooing!
 
R2D2 said:
That is great! I hope the stitch removal is relatively painless. On Friday I go to the local doctor to get the steristrips taken off and for him to look at the incision to make sure everything is okay.

I don't have so much a full feeling but a feeling that I have a clamp behind my ear LOL! Where is your incision positioned? Mine is right along the crease of the back of the ear.
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My incision is located in the crease of the back of the ear and then when it get to the top of the ear and goes straight up for about an inch and a half. There will be a picture posted on my blog tomorrow. My mom took pictures but I can't stomach looking at them yet. I don't do well with things like that. :)
 
here are the pictures of my incision! Tell me what you think lol

3 more days to go
 

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contradica said:
Man if I didn't know better I say the same doctor did our surgery :giggle: My surgery was done at University of Pennsylvania, where was yours done?
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Interesting Photo Sweetdolph! Mine is similar except that it doesn't continue to go upwards at the top of the ear but stops at the top part of the crease of the ear. I took some photos of it but it's still covered in steristrips! I will have another go on Friday when it gets cleaned up.
 
Surgeryin' ....Ehhh ehhhh ehhh

((((( Thudddd )))))

Good luck, runnin' away from Surgeryin' and a :bowdown:
Prayin' the lord!!!
 
PePe LePew said:
((((( Thudddd )))))

Good luck, runnin' away from Surgeryin' and a :bowdown:
Prayin' the lord!!!
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Mind how you go, Pepe. No not that way, the door is over there. Oops poor guy. I guess we scared him with our scar beauty contest :giggle:
 
Contradica,

How did the stitch removal go today? And did you enjoy washing your hair? I was going to suggest since you look like you have long hair and might still have a sore neck, to do it by sectioning it off with ponytail holders and washing it bit by bit in the shower. Plaiting the sections and then squeezing the shampoo through the wet hair would be even better as you don't need the usual effort with detangling afterwards. Less pressure on the neck.

You probably did it all anyway with no big drama or needing to do anything like that!

I'm still feeling pretty good today - I'm looking forward to my appointment with the GP to get the strips replaced and the incision tidied up a bit.

Kalboy, how are you going? And Sweetdolphin, are you :hyper::hyper::hyper:?
 
R2D2 said:
Contradica,

How did the stitch removal go today? And did you enjoy washing your hair? I was going to suggest since you look like you have long hair and might still have a sore neck, to do it by sectioning it off with ponytail holders and washing it bit by bit in the shower. Plaiting the sections and then squeezing the shampoo through the wet hair would be even better as you don't need the usual effort with detangling afterwards. Less pressure on the neck.

You probably did it all anyway with no big drama or needing to do anything like that!

I'm still feeling pretty good today - I'm looking forward to my appointment with the GP to get the strips replaced and the incision tidied up a bit.

Kalboy, how are you going? And Sweetdolphin, are you :hyper::hyper::hyper:?
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I just got home from the city of brotherly love :) and I left my stitches there. Since the incision is still numb, I hardly felt them take out the stitches. The doctor said everything looks great. He was happy to hear that I hardly had any side effects from the surgery. I must have been so excited about washing my hair that I left my car keys in my car. hehehe :) It felt soooooooo good to wash it. I concentrated on the area around my incision since that where it collected most of the goop from the ointment. I wish i read your post about sectioning off my hair prior but I went from drivers seat to shower in 60 seconds flat. :)

I woke up feeling GREAT today. I didn't even take any pain pills at all today. Tomorrow I go back to work. Looking forward to that. I am getting bored. The walls are closing in on me!!

Tigger, how is your tinnitus? is that subsiding some too?
 
contradica said:
Tigger, how is your tinnitus? is that subsiding some too?
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I can see that you are definitely much perkier now! So glad you are feeling so good that you don't need to take painkillers any more :)

The tinnitus in the newly implant ear disappeared after the first day so I'm happy that it looks like I only have to deal with it in the first ear. I developed very tinnitus in that ear after experiencing my sudden loss. Although the CI surgery initially made it worse, it then made it much better once I heard sound through that ear.

It's a funny thought now that without my CIs, I am completely stone, cold, as as a doornail deaf now.
 
I really enjoy reading all of these. It helps so much to listen and read all the experiences. I also glad to see everyone doing well with surgery. An interesting thing happen last night. I was talking to my husband(been married 18 years). I got up to put in my speech processor to understand more and he said why don't you still hear like you use too. I said no I lost about 50% of that residual hearing. He was shocked and did not realize it. I told him after 35 years of being HOH I'm good at lip reading and adjusting to life with and without sound. It was a shock to him that even without the processor I could still communicate. I enjoy using the CI because as he only has to say things once. The talks go quicker. And I get the jokes the first time unless he is being silly(99% of the time).
 
That's funny Vallee. Yesterday morning, before I had put my CI on, I was curious and started shouting to myself to see what it felt like :giggle: My four year old daughter was mystified and asked me why I was shouting so I then started into an explanation of how I was completely deaf and I couldn't hear voices and wanted to see what it felt like.

I then wondered if she got confused by the fact that I had understood her when she asked why I was shouting! So then I had to explain about lipreading. Poor child. She must think her mother is insane :giggle:
 
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