Surgery day pictures

Well, I typed up this loooooong post about how having a disability was not fun but that being able to live a miracle because of it made it all worth it, but Blogger apparently thought I shouldn't post that. :(

I FINALLY uploaded the pictures from my real camera.  Here they are:

In the waiting room before surgery.  THIS is why make-up should be allowed on surgery day.  I may or may not have said that to the dr...yeah, I keep it classy. :)

Dr. Shohet.  I adore him.  What can you say about the person who makes it possible for you to hear?

No, it's not coffee...I'm not THAT addicted. :)  After the dr. talked to my parents and told them everything went well, they went to get me hot tea from Starbucks.  After my first surgery, I had a terrible sore throat and wanted tea right away.  That didn't happen this time, but I was grateful for it since my grouchy nurse was stingy with the apple juice.  I'm still bitter about that.

 

 

 

 

My hair kept falling out around the incision site.  If you look at it now, it looks like they barely took any hair, but I have a lot of super thick hair.  This was gross and it pretty much freaked me out every time.

Leaving the surgery center.  I was in TONS of pain here.  Grouchy nurse would only give me half a percocet.  That makes sense after my head was just cut up open and my skull drilled into, right?  In fact, as soon as we got to the hotel, I begged my parents for pain meds...literally in tears.  It was bad.  I can't believe how different it was from the first surgery!

As for an update, I feel great!  The pain is pretty much gone.  I can sleep on the implant side now and actually put my hair in a ponytail last week!  The implant site feels really tight when I turn my head to the left, but that's really all I notice.  The incision is barely noticeable already.  The first week was tough, but now, I definitely don't feel like I had surgery less than a month ago! :)