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[ysobel]

a) my mom called today -- she's convinced there are People After Me and also that I am being held captive. Nothing I said reassured her. I told her several times that I loved her. Dementia is a bitch and a half.

b) unbandaged my ear today. Felt good to be free, though if I'd been smart I'd've shaved my head Monday in preparation. For now bandaging is optional, because it's sealed in with dermabond. The donor site for the skin looks fine, as far as "was sutured up day before yesterday" goes. The ear ... really doesn't. It's a good reconstruction, they did a good job, but it looks gross and wrong. I will probably keep it bandagd.

a+b=c) I am totally not coping rn. Doesn't help that my sleep has been interrupted because pain. Some of the pain may have been from the adhesive from the bandage (there was gauze over the ear but taped to my head, and it's the head that was hurting most today). idk.

d) spent today without glasses, because blurry astigmatic eyesight is more comfortable than crooked glasses. (Contact lenses are not practical since I can't reach my eyes.) I don't know when the top edge of the ear, where it connects to the head, will be okay with either glasses or hearing aid.

e) I'm tired.

Comments

[barbaratp]

Desejo melhoras mil para você na sua recuperação. Nunca fiz uma cirurgia, mas já me machuquei muito em pequenos acidentes domésticos e de trabalho e sei o quanto algo cicatrizando pode ser um incomodo, ainda mais em regiões sensíveis como a cabeça.

[ysobel]

Obrigado! Agora não estou me sentindo tão mal — apenas desconfortável —, mas com certeza ficarei mais feliz assim que tudo cicatrizar.

(I assume you can read English okay but I wanted to try a little Portuguese ;) With Google Translate's help, anyway.)

[barbaratp]

Não leio inglês, uso o tradutor para ler tudo sue há na web. Você pode escrever em inglês mesmo, às vezes o tradutor pode presumir uma coisa e o seu texto sair errado, fora que eu falo português brasileiro e se você usar a variante de Portugal não entenderia nada :risos: mas obrigado pela gentileza.

E é normal se sentir desconfortável numa situação dessas. Espero que tudo melhore para você.

[princessofgeeks]

Thinking of you. Sorry your mom has lost her marbles. Very hard.

[ysobel]

Thanks. As far as my mom goes, her marbles have been vanishing for a while; we just thought it was her usual quirkiness but in retrospect it may have been more serious. And it's declining fast based on her doctor visits. Sigh.

[pauamma]

Sympathy for c). Hug if you'd like.

[ysobel]

Thanks :) and hugs are always good (just don't get my ear by accident) 💜

[pauamma]

*hugs you carefully*

[jesse_the_k]

Being forcibly separated from clear vision and hearing is entirely bad enough, plus pain plus Mom?

My sympathies

[ysobel]

Thanks 💜

The nice thing is my current game, Heartopia, can be played with my current vision blurriness, and no one is going to harass me for playing it all day :D