Recovery Day 1

So Tuesday was the first real day of recovery for me. I was able to get out of bed for moments at a time, and go out to the front room. Usually for only about a half hour at a time. This was when I really noticed the dressing on my head. I was feeling some pains in my forehead, and I was pretty sure that it was from the dressing. I knew we were going to be taking it off later Tuesday night, so I just dealt with it. I had also slept with this dressing, and it was not easy, but I was tired enough to sleep on my back for most of the time, or I slept on the actual dressing (without consciously knowing I was). Here's a picture of me with the dressing on. Bryan wasn't kidding when he said it looked like Princess Leia's hair. I apologize for the picture being sideways, I can't get it to work otherwise.

Excuse the quailty of the picture, it was taken with a cell phone :)
Bryan had wanted to take a picture while I was in the hospital with me like that, but was afraid I would murder him. I wouldn't have actually, as I know people would want to see what it looked like, and people would also understand why I looked like crap. So to get the full effect of yesterday, just imagined my eyes almost closed and my jaw drooping, as I was just that out of it yesterday.
We took the dressing off right after the previous picture. My right ear had almost no blood on the gauze, etc. Which is the one we took off first. My left ear is a different story. Since I have friends that do not like looking at anything gross, there's a link to the pictures. Honestly, it's not that gross, and all you see are white strips with dried blood on it. So there's your warning of what it looks like. You can't see the incision itself, or anything of the sort.
http://picasaweb.google.com/slvrchic83/CochlearImplant#
Along with the big cups that were over my ears, there was gauze underneath them, and then cotton balls in my ear canals. Those were all taken out when I took the cups off.
In the pictures you can also see the purple mark where the surgeon had marked where the surgery would be. They also shaved just a bit of my hair off, not much at all, and Bryan and I are pretty sure they may have shaved off the edges of my eyebrows...weird I know, but we both swear their shorter than they were before.