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<\/a>On day 4 I still had some light swelling in my head.<\/p><\/div>\n
I took a nap after the lunch but I still felt tired after the nap so I decided to take a shower after the dinner in order to stay awake for a little longer. After that I saw a movie together with my mother – this was the first time I watched a whole movie since the surgery – in first days I really could not focus on the TV long enough to watch an entire movie so I only watched a few episodes of a tv-series in those first days.<\/p>\n
The night went much better and I was only awake 1 time at 1.00 am and then I slept til 7.00 am. For the first time I also managed to lean my head a little to the sides – especially my right side was beginning to feel more comfortable to lie on. If I did not have to sleep with a raise headrest I would probably have tried to sleep on my sides.<\/p>\n
Day 5.<\/h2>\n
In the morning I felt much more comfortable and I just felt a little pain in the left side and in my throat. I the right side I just felt some tensions. The reason for the throat pains were that during the narcosis I had been intubated. They do this to ensure my breath during the surgery. But luckily I never experienced the process of being intubated \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Before the breakfast I had to acknowledge that the penicillin is tough on the stomach and I lost my appetite because of that. But that luckily resolved quickly so that I could have my breakfast.<\/p>\n
My tinnitus was still bad and I felt that it occupied more of my mind. It became more annoying in the first part of the day and I then felt that it took all of my focus – I really could not think about anything else. I experienced that the tinnitus made all my thought processes happen in slow motion and that almost made me feel a little dizzy and very tired.<\/p>\n
My nap after the lunch did not change the volume of the tinnitus but I felt much better and watched a long movie in the evening and went later to bed (about 11 pm)<\/p>\n
The night went fine but I really wanted to sleep on my sides but I couldn’t do that with the raised headrest.<\/p>\n
Day 6.<\/h2>\n
In the morning I experienced the tinnitus as being on the same level as the day before, but I had much more energy and therefore felt that it was much easier to ignore it. This was the first day where I had energy to watch TV before lunch and I did not need a nap after lunch.<\/p>\n
My mom and I went shopping. It was nice to get some air but I felt that it was quite overwhelming to get all these visual inputs. I also experienced that it was confusing to orientate without sound. All the things that I could not see simply did not exist in my reality. That meant that I had to keep turning around to see what was behind me. When we were in the shop I felt totally bombed by visual impressions and let my mother decide all the things that should be purchased – I really could not relate to other things. It was a strange experience but no matter what it also gave a little feeling of success because I was now able to go to a supermarket.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon we cut some of my hair with a trimmer so that it looked more sensible than the crazy haircut I had from the hospital. It was nice to get it done but I could also feel that I was nervous about letting someone touch my head – it could easily cause me pains.<\/p>\n
The night was almost like the previous and I felt impressed that my nights did go that well despite the fact that I had pains, tinnitus and did not lie that well in the bed.<\/p>\n
Day 7.<\/h2>\n
This was the day where my mom had to go home. I felt that it had been fantastic to be cared about in the first days but I also felt that it was hard to acknowledge that I now had to take care of my self – it was still a little unmanageable even though I knew that it would not be a problem and that I would get a visit from my dad on the next day – he had to work in a neighboring city and therefore wanted to stay at my apartment for those days. One of the things that was most tough was that I was hit on my ability to communicate – I could not just take the phone and call someone – all communication was time consuming and did not provide me with the same outcome.<\/p>\n
My stomach was not happy about the penicillin this morning – It felt like it hurt but luckily it helped when I was about to get my breakfast.<\/p>\n
I decided to try to listen to some music again with my in-ear headphones but on this day I could not hear any of the sound – it seemed that my ability to hear was varying from day to day. A possible cause for this is that I could have some blood in the middle ear and that this would prevent sound from penetrating.<\/p>\n
I had started to get frustrated on the missing sound in my surroundings. Movies in the TV seemed “dead” when there was no sound – but it was also all the other everyday sounds that seemed frustrating not to have. I could for instance not hear what happened in the house or if someone entered the room that I was in. I therefore had to be on guard in another way and had to prepare my self for the events that I knew would come – for instance if my mom was about to enter the room that I was in – I did not want to get surprised. On my two trips outside I also felt that the missing sound meant that I had to use my other senses in another way for orienting myself and that was also tiresome.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon my tinnitus changed a lot in frequencies and volume – for a short while I actually thought that it had disappeared – but it wasn’t – it came back.<\/p>\n
I felt that my patches was starting to feel annoying. One of them was beginning to get loose in the edge – it was very sticky below and I could also feel that some of my hairs was starting to grow through the patch and that made it very itchy. I therefore looked very much forwards to getting the patches off at my doctor five days later.<\/p>\n
The night went fine and it was the last night where I had to sleep with a raised headrest – I looked forwards to the following night where I would be able to sleep on a flat bed \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
This was the rest of my experiences from the first week after the surgery. In my next post I will present my experiences from the second week. There much more to tell about – for instance I had a day where I felt dizzy. But it will also be a post where it is clear that I felt better as the week progressed \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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