I can’t believe its been over a month since my surgery! The recovery has gone so well, better than I could have ever hoped. I feel great! Possibly better than before the surgery! Well, I still have the dizzy factor but it is completely manageable. I’ve just accepted that its going to take time, maybe a lot. I tend to go to the right (AN side) so when I walk down a dark hall I bounce off the wall and door jams on the right side. Its actually kind of comical. Its not all the time of course, the worst times are in the dark and when I get tired. Sometimes I just lose my balance for no apparent reason which just makes me feel silly but I haven’t fallen over yet so that’s good. My Wii Fit Trainer often tells me that my right side is weak and stiff and asks if I fall down a lot, HA!
My SSD (single-sided deafness) is something I’m still getting used to. I have to admit though, and maybe I’ve mentioned this before but, I love sleeping on my good ear, which I’ve always slept on my left side anyway, and the world is so quiet at night. Linda and Larry bought us these really neat memory foam pillows and I can’t hear anything through it, I love it! Sometimes Cassidy pulls the hair up on whatever side she’s standing on to see if its my good ear or bad before she talks. Directional hearing drives me crazy. I was in Costco on Saturday and getting ready to check out when I heard someone call my name. Of course there is a zillion people in there so when I turn around all I can do is look for a familiar face or someone looking at me because I have no idea where the sound came from. Its so weird! Chris is learning to walk on my left side when we go out together and I learned to sit with my bad ear to the wall in sewing class. There is still mild ear pressure and of course the tinnitus, ringing that sounds more like holding a large seashell up to my ear 24/7. Luckily it is mild and I’m getting used to it.
Pain level is at zero for all accounts and purposes. Praise the Lord.
Follow-up appointments on Thursday!
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All sounds pretty good, considering everthing that has gone on!