10 Days post-surgery update
Still progressing, but not back to full power yet. lol I have been outside a couple of times and do okay as long as I don't get over tired - which doesn't take too much right now. Still on my two week "light duty", so that limits my activity, too. I can't lift more than 10 lbs - a gallon of milk weighs 8 lbs, for a reference point.
No, or very minimal, pain now for a couple of days and that is with pain medication significantly reduced. Some of the side effects of the pain medication are slowly fading, too - like constipation, and nausea, etc - which is definitely a good thing.
The surgical site looks good, or at least what we can see under the steri-strips - no redness, or heat, and swelling is going down. The actual drill hole into the skull and through the mastoid is hidden under the scalp flap, but I guess we would know if something was going on there.
Still can't hear out of that ear, still having drainage, and the top half of my ear is numb, but I suspect that is because of all the swelling that is still there.
Still fighting some dizziness - especially if I bend over - but that's getting better, too.
All in all - making progress, but going slower than I would have liked. But I've never been accused of having too much patience.
