Bionic now!

Wow! I know it has been a while since I last posted, but I am now the Bionic Heather and so with that comes recovery and healing! So let me give you the brief version of just what has been happening the last several weeks! (By the way-I was so blessed by all the encouragement and prayers via facebook, email, and cards that I received BEFORE my surgery! Thank you all!! It means a lot to me and I appreciate each and everyone of you!) Hubby and I were very impressed with the hospital that took such good care of both me AND hubby! That early morning (4am wake up call!) we were greeted with each nurse and doctor that would be in the operating room with me. There were a total of 8 of them!! And each one of them were positive and professional! I requested an interpreter for that morning to make sure I would not miss out on any important detail and she was simply wonderful-like the sister I never had! There was not much to interpret before the surgery and all went well! Throughout the surgery, hubby was kept up to date through the computer flat screen on the wall where it is color-coded through our doctor's name to let hubby know which stage of the surgery I was in (pre-surgery, surgery has started, in surgery, recovery, etc) plus the doctor would call hubby in the waiting room letting him know where he was at with me during surgery! How cool is that?! The surgery went beautifully, the doctor came and gave hubby pictures of how it looks inside my ear and said that he expects a great outcome of this surgery. In recovery, wow, it was brutal trying to wake up! I was in no pain, but felt swelling and the usual groggy stuff and totally out of it. I was trying to talk, but could not due to the tube they put in my throat and thankfully my interpreter was there and I signed everything to her to tell everyone what I needed-wow I REALLY needed her then-never thought that would be during that time though! But we got through it. We stayed in the hospital and finally had my first meal of macaroni and cheese 30 hours later! That night at the hospital was the worst of all the pain I have had in recovering from this surgery. I did not get much sleep at all that night between the pain and trying to get in a comfortable sleeping position with my head all wrapped up! We came home to my wonderful greeting crew of my kids! My in-laws helped SO much in making me recover so quickly and I appreciate all they did, from taking care of the kids, allowing me to nap, and they even did a cleaning of the house-I am talking SPRING cleaning! (Thank you both!!!) We just got back from the doctor this past week to check on my incision and all looks well-no infection!! YAY! I need to continue to heal in the next several weeks, allow the swelling in the ear area to go down and then are you ready for this?!!! AUGUST 27th I WILL BE ABLE TO HEAR AGAIN! And it looks like this is coming just in time for me to hear important things: Baby will turn 1 in September, son is playing soccer for the first time, daughter will be taking more piano lessons (by me as her teacher!) and going into drama classes, I will be teaching a class for homeschooling, and with all the fall and Christmas activities coming-wow! I am already overwhelmed just thinking of all the things that I just might be able to hear! So now another countdown begins: 23 more days to go til my new gift is complete!