Cochlear Implant Surgery, Part 2

11:50 am:
I realize someone is tapping or shaking me on the shoulder and my eyes flutter open.  “Wendi!  Wendi!”  Some nurse I don’t recognize is smiling and waving.  I think I smile back…man, it’s SO hard to keep my eyes open, what is going on?!
It slowly dawns on me that I’m in the recovery area.  [...]

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Cochlear Implant Surgery, Part 1

It’s been one week since my cochlear implant surgery, so I thought I’d honor the day by writing up the actual surgery experience. This is the kind of thing I really wanted to read before my surgery, so I hope it might help anyone who might be considering this surgery and wonders what it’s [...]

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Trials and Tribulations With Taste

I’ve been joking around that I’m on some kind of Atkins diet here.  The taste thing just kind of cracks me up – I’m not at all upset by it, like I was afraid I might be.  I feel pretty confident that my taste buds will get back to normal in a few months or, [...]

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Pictures – CI Surgery Day

I finally have pictures to share.  They don’t start out graphic but there are photos of my incisions at the end here so if you are squeamish, run quickly!! 
This is the morning of surgery, just as we were getting ready to leave the house at about 4:15 am or so.  I am in [...]

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3 Days Later

The head bra is gone!!  What a relief.  That has really helped with the pain, I have to say.  It was so tight that originally I could barely open my eyes — I had to push it back off my eyebrows a bit.  I looked like I was grimacing and pissed off — it was [...]

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Quick Update from Wendi

Hi everyone!!!  It’s me — I’m up and about for a little while this morning.    We don’t have a laptop, otherwise I would’ve sent that post last night on my own, since I was doing pretty well but not really up to walking around much.  Big hugs to Dave for doing it for [...]

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Wendi’s surgery update

Hi All! …this is dave (wendi’s husband)….just a quick update on wendi’s bilateral implant surgery…it went absolutely great! Got to the hospital at 5:45am…surgery started just after 8am and her dr. was talking to me a little before 11am. Actual surgery time was 2 1/2 hrs. Everything went as well (or better) than we hoped [...]

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See You on the Other Side

I was going to write a really long entry today and here it is, way past my bedtime already!  How did the day go so quickly?!
Well, I’m setting the alarm for 3:50 am (ack!) since we have to be at the hospital — ready to check in — at 5:45 am.  We’re leaving early since [...]

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Still misunderstandin’

Okay, just one more old funny misunderstanding then I swear I’ll stop and actually write something current. I still haven’t found the love story … I thought it would be fun for everyone to see Dave’s writing since that’s how we originally met. I fell in love with his words before I ever saw his [...]

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What did you say??

I’ve been going through old emails and files, trying to find the story that Dave typed up about how we met and fell in love.  It used to be up on a personal website of mine that I started in the late ’90s but it’s been taken down and I have no idea where I [...]

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