As happened with the first implant, I had a lot of trouble getting to sleep last night, though I eventually did (which was an improvement from last time). Still, I stayed home and took it easy today, especially since I had to leave the ear cup on for 24 hours. It was so uncomfortable that by the end I was counting the minutes until I could take it off…I’m convinced that the little pain I was feeling today was due to the pressure from the cup.

But, the 24-hour mark finally came and I took the thing off. That alone felt great, but even better was being able to to shower and wash my hair, which was all crunchy and gross. I felt 1000% better after that.

My sense of taste continues to be weird, but it’s only been a day so I guess I can’t expect it to have resolved itself already. I also tried testing our smoke alarm while not wearing my processor, and unfortunately I couldn’t hear it at all, which is a little depressing since I don’t sleep with my processor. Of course Ray will wake me if an alarm goes off, and he’s also rigged our home automation to turn on the lights, so the only time we should really need to worry is on those very rare occasions when I travel without him. I think the last time that happened was in 2018 when I went to a work-related conference, so yeah, it doesn’t happen often…and there are deaf-accessible hotel rooms which will turn on lights in the event of an alarm, as well.

Called to make my activation appointment today, and it turns out I should have called earlier — I planned to make an earlier appointment to get the new processor for my first implanted ear, but the audiologist is booked solid. Still need to figure out when to do that, but I do have my activation appointment for the new implant on July 28th.

I had been planning to work from home the rest of this week, but I may go into the office tomorrow, as I feel fine.