couldn't stand it anymore
It's only two weeks since surgery but I couldn't stand my hair any more so I went to get it cut. The incision is still highly visible, the hair's not grown back much at all where it was shaved, and there's still some suture there above my ear. It's supposed to be the kind that dissolves but it's taking a long time.
Actually, it's been hard for me not to pick at it because at the very top of the incision where Dr. H tied it off there's a little tail of suture about an eighth of an inch long sticking straight out. So I poke at it and wish it was gone.
But the woman that cuts my hair did fine, steering around it all. She's pretty used to my CI now, and asked me if this was another one. I said yes, and showed her the bump where the implant is. It's still more prominent than the first one as there's a bit of swelling yet, but it's feeling pretty good. This morning after I woke up I actually rolled over onto the left side of my head without screaming and leaping out of bed, which is much better than last time.
All in all, it's healing well and I'm looking forward to Thursday, which is an appointment twofer. First I see my surgeon for my post-op checkup and approval to go ahead with activation. I keep hoping for a comment along the lines of the one I got from an ENT specialist years ago - I'd gone in because of some vertigo, and he did what's called an Exley maneuver in which the patient is moved, rapidly and suddenly, in the correct direction to put the inner ear to rights and restore balance. It works, by the way. Immediately. I was amazed, and said so, and the ENT just smiled and said, "Go forth, for I have cured you."
And he had. But I don't know if I think Dr. H will say "Go forth and hear" because it's not really her style.
But the second appointment in my twofer is my activation, and I am, in fact, going to go forth and hear.
Bilaterally. First time in twenty years.
I still haven't lost my sense of awe with this whole thing.
Actually, it's been hard for me not to pick at it because at the very top of the incision where Dr. H tied it off there's a little tail of suture about an eighth of an inch long sticking straight out. So I poke at it and wish it was gone.
But the woman that cuts my hair did fine, steering around it all. She's pretty used to my CI now, and asked me if this was another one. I said yes, and showed her the bump where the implant is. It's still more prominent than the first one as there's a bit of swelling yet, but it's feeling pretty good. This morning after I woke up I actually rolled over onto the left side of my head without screaming and leaping out of bed, which is much better than last time.
All in all, it's healing well and I'm looking forward to Thursday, which is an appointment twofer. First I see my surgeon for my post-op checkup and approval to go ahead with activation. I keep hoping for a comment along the lines of the one I got from an ENT specialist years ago - I'd gone in because of some vertigo, and he did what's called an Exley maneuver in which the patient is moved, rapidly and suddenly, in the correct direction to put the inner ear to rights and restore balance. It works, by the way. Immediately. I was amazed, and said so, and the ENT just smiled and said, "Go forth, for I have cured you."
And he had. But I don't know if I think Dr. H will say "Go forth and hear" because it's not really her style.
But the second appointment in my twofer is my activation, and I am, in fact, going to go forth and hear.
Bilaterally. First time in twenty years.
I still haven't lost my sense of awe with this whole thing.
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