Hi Jen,
I just saw your question about BAHA surgery. BAHA surgery is a piece of cake, especially after AN surgery, which you've had twice. I had local anesthesia with sedation, because that was my doc's recommendation. I was awake for most of the surgery but very relaxed. I could easily have done without the sedation. At the end of the surgery, you get a lovely headwrap to wear home and remove yourself, but it's not a tight one -- it's really just there to keep the bandage in place, not as a pressure bandage. I removed mine 24 hours after surgery and was able to wash my hair the next day. Since then, I've had to put bacitracin on the BAHA site with a Q-tip before and after my shower and that's it. The BAHA site is very numb and will stay that way and the area around the site has varying degrees of dumbness, apparently the nerves in that area are already repairing themselves. All in all, it has been a very interesting experience.
I am now impatiently waiting for the next few weeks to pass to I can start using my processor which I already have. For now, I keep myself happy by looking at the processor now and then and reading the booklets that came with it. I figure I'm one step ahead of most people since I have the opportunity to familiarize myself with it now since most people don't get the processor until their 3 month healing period is over.
Wendy
