I was updating my calendar today and I realized that tomorrow a week has gone by and I will only have THREE more weeks til my surgery if all goes well!! (SQUEAL!!!!!!!) My heart is just thumping at the thought of the day I can type, "Today, I am going bionic!" So I thought in celebration of a week going by (which by the way, I am feeling SO much better from my recent surgery-thanks for all the prayers and support you guys!!) I thought I post a couple things to show you just what a cochlear implant is!
This is a link that shows you a video of how a cochlear implant works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Rgcrm3Cow
And these links I just had to post to give you an idea of what a life-changing experience it is to have cochlear implants as a child!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6UQBX8sNPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsyOx0z57pU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1TA_AbhqA8&feature=related
Wow, these all made me teary-eyed! Maybe I will have a video to show in a couple of months! Ha!
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Not out of the woods yet!
Two words describe my recent surgery for my infection behind my eye: AWESOME and UGH! Let me explain. My doctor was out of this world! He is AWESOME! He explained everything in details before doing anything, (yes I was awake through it all!). He put a very wide band around my head and forehead and it turns out to be a device that protects my brain during the surgery and he is one of the very fewest doctors that do that! The hardest part of the surgery was just trying to numb me up! It took about an hour to do that and that is the UGH part! I am so thankful my husband was there to talk me through it and get me through it! My throat would become numb and I couldn't feel myself swallowing and that terrified me! I was never in ANY pain from the beginning of numbing to the end of surgery-for that I am very thankful! (If you are in need of a sinus doctor, contact me because I HIGHLY recommend this doctor in Columbus!)
Now back to the two words again: The surgery itself was only 10 minutes-AWESOME! And as soon as it was done, I felt like I could breathe better! He found that there was no infection there but I was inflamed as if there was an infection there. We really don't know if my infection was there and then the medicine the cochlear implant doctor gave me took care of this and it showed up inflamed on the cat scan or it just recently went away-we don't know, but now the critical part is ensuring that the infection does not come back. So I am to do these rinses-UGH, these are not your typical saline rinses through a netti pot! I have to shoot up 12 ounces of this "medicine" three times a day for an entire MONTH! The last few days have been really tough to do because I am still swollen and so I feel like I am drowning when I do these rinses. But the doctor said these rinses will help to make sure the infection does not come back.
Four days before my surgery date of the cochlear implants, I have to see him again for him to do an MRI: and there we will see if my infection came back which I need to do the surgery all over again - UGH. Or my infection may not be there and I can proceed for my cochlear implants on the 19th - AWESOME! So I am technically not out of the woods yet, I am REALLY REALLY REALLY praying that all goes well and on schedule for the 19th. I am holding onto faith right now!
Now back to the two words again: The surgery itself was only 10 minutes-AWESOME! And as soon as it was done, I felt like I could breathe better! He found that there was no infection there but I was inflamed as if there was an infection there. We really don't know if my infection was there and then the medicine the cochlear implant doctor gave me took care of this and it showed up inflamed on the cat scan or it just recently went away-we don't know, but now the critical part is ensuring that the infection does not come back. So I am to do these rinses-UGH, these are not your typical saline rinses through a netti pot! I have to shoot up 12 ounces of this "medicine" three times a day for an entire MONTH! The last few days have been really tough to do because I am still swollen and so I feel like I am drowning when I do these rinses. But the doctor said these rinses will help to make sure the infection does not come back.
Four days before my surgery date of the cochlear implants, I have to see him again for him to do an MRI: and there we will see if my infection came back which I need to do the surgery all over again - UGH. Or my infection may not be there and I can proceed for my cochlear implants on the 19th - AWESOME! So I am technically not out of the woods yet, I am REALLY REALLY REALLY praying that all goes well and on schedule for the 19th. I am holding onto faith right now!
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
A DATE!!
I have a date!!! WOW!!!! I never thought I would be saying this! On JULY 19th, I will officially get my implants and become "robotic"! Ha! I will not be able to hear at this time, I have to heal for a month and allow the swelling to go down and then go back in August to be "Activated" (hear)! I feel like the Terminator when I say that! But to have a date; wow what a difference it makes! When I heard the date, I cried because I said to myself, "I really am going to hear!!" It feels so real now. And God answered my prayers, I am going to hear on my baby's first birthday in September! I have my surgery on my infection behind my eye next week and once that is over, I can start preparing for my official surgery!
Please pray for my kids and I though, we are getting very weary of the struggles that we go through with my deafness in our day to day living. I prayed with them today and asked God to give us the strength to make it through the last two months with patience with each other. Just two more months until I can hear and what a difference that will make in our lives!!
Several of you have asked me more information about the implant itself and so next week after my first surgery, I will give a detailed post about the implants and what is involved in actually hearing through these implants!
Please pray for my kids and I though, we are getting very weary of the struggles that we go through with my deafness in our day to day living. I prayed with them today and asked God to give us the strength to make it through the last two months with patience with each other. Just two more months until I can hear and what a difference that will make in our lives!!
Several of you have asked me more information about the implant itself and so next week after my first surgery, I will give a detailed post about the implants and what is involved in actually hearing through these implants!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)