Not a huge amount to report now really. Recovery continues to go well. After that first awful night, I’ve been sleeping fine. No real pain from the incision, but in the last couple days I have started feeling an occasional twinge of pain in the ear itself — like in the ear canal, not the incision site. I plan to ask the doctor about that tomorrow, but so far it’s not been bad or long-lasting enough to be much of a big deal. I’ve continued to take Tylenol, but haven’t felt the need to take any more of the tramadol. The little bit of hearing I had left in my implanted ear seems to be completely gone, but there was so little there that I’m not really noticing it much or bothered by it. The top of my ear is numb to the touch, but people on the FB CI group assure me that that’s normal; the feeling might or might not return eventually.

The doctor said I should wait 3 days after surgery to wash my hair; I decided that I’d wash it when peroxide poured over the incision no longed fizzed, which should indicate that it was closed and healing. That was yesterday, and oh, such bliss to finally have clean hair again! It had been getting really, really gross. The fact that it’s mid-summer and we’re in a heat wave didn’t help, even if I have been staying in the air-conditioned house most of the time.

I’ve gone out a few times on errands with no problems. My post-op check with the doctor is tomorrow morning, and I expect to go to work afterward unless the doctor says I shouldn’t. Everything is healing well as far as I can tell, and I have a sedentary job, so I don’t expect I’ll need more time off. I do need to find out when I can exercise again; looks like we might get some decent weather this week so I’m wondering if I might be able to go biking. (Hmm. I probably won’t be able to wear a helmet yet even if I am allowed to exercise, because my head is still very tender, so maybe not.)