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General Category => Hearing Issues => Topic started by: mikjul1 on April 26, 2009, 10:32:55 am

Title: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: mikjul1 on April 26, 2009, 10:32:55 am

Ventured out today for some pet supplies and of course eveybody looking at my head the cashier asked what happen because of the bandgae of course. It is 90 degrees today it sucks when you have a wrap on trying not to sweat so it does not get infected.

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: Sefra22 on April 26, 2009, 12:50:06 pm

I wore mine to the mall to buy a wrap to cover it. I wore a jacket with a hood which covered most of the bandage. Later I wore the wrap to my Doctor's appt. I thought I looked like a glamorous movie star in my black scarf, but apparently everyone thought I  looked like a nun or a Muslim.

Lisa

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: mikjul1 on April 26, 2009, 12:53:57 pm

Hey how are feeling
 ;D

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: Kathy M on April 26, 2009, 03:09:56 pm

Hi!

I remember the first venture out with a white gauze headwrap in mid January.  But let me tell ya....I have struggled with infections since 3 1/2 weeks post op and until 3 weeks ago, I had to wear gauze wraps in public.  Sometimes I would wear colorful scarves over the gauze and sometimes not.  You quickly learn that it doesn't matter one iota what anybody else is thinking.  You are recovering, living your life, and that is fantastic.  Gave me some lessons in humility and priorities, and I'm really grateful for that.

AND....the good thing is that scarves are really "in" now.  Really pretty ones are in all the stores that anything you could wear.  My incision has finally healed so I don't need to cover the wound with gauze, but I'll still be wearing scarves for another 2-3 months until I grow some hair on this spot or the surrounding hair gets long enough to cover it.  Although most folks aren't wrapping these pretty scarves around their heads..maybe I'll start a trend in Ohio's capital city!

Anyway - walk tall and be proud to be out in the world!  Hopefully - your time in headwraps is brief!!!  If not, no worries!!!

Kathy

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: mikjul1 on April 26, 2009, 03:14:58 pm

Thanks Kathy it might be funny for a guy to wear a head wrap  :o . But the white wrap looks like a cool battle injury. But hey the thought was nice. did you have a Baha surgery or just had AN surgery?

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: mikjul1 on April 26, 2009, 03:16:26 pm

OK sorry just read your profile. Glad the infection is gone  ;).

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: lori67 on April 26, 2009, 04:10:49 pm

Mike,

You could have made up some good stories about how you got "wounded"!  Attacked by a bear, wrestling an alligator, bungee jumping mishap...   :D

Lori

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: mikjul1 on April 26, 2009, 04:14:44 pm

That is a good idea  ;D

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: Kathy M on April 26, 2009, 07:32:37 pm

hahaha...I would love to see you in colorful scarves - silk, no less!!!  Well, I can tell you that whatever you end up wearing in public is good enough for anyone out there.    Doesn't Brett Michaels wear something all over his head?  A bandana or something?  Walk tall whatever you do.

As for the BAHA, I am intriqued, but am not likiing the idea of a 3rd surgery on my poor head.  I'll see how I adust at work with SSD.

and for goodness sakes...whatever your doctors tell you to do or not do to avoid infection, do what they say!!!  There was no avoiding mine - it was coming no matter what I did, but some infections are avoidable!

Best of luck to you...and thanks for the chuckle.  Gave me a great visual!!

Kathy

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: mikjul1 on April 26, 2009, 08:07:16 pm

Thanks Kathy  ;D glad you laughed

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: Dan on April 27, 2009, 01:09:45 am

I only had to wear the head wrap a few times out in public but had to wear an eyepatch for months.  The looks from little kids and whispers were cute, (mommy is that a pirate, or what happened to him)

Dan in Germany

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: Migoi on April 27, 2009, 04:22:51 am

I didn't ever have to go out with a head wrap, but like Dan I did wear an eye patch for a while. Even without an eyepatch I tend to look a bit like a pirate since I have a beard long enough to cover the knot of my tie, when I wear one.

Actually, being thought a pirate by the younger ones was a bit of a relief. Most of the time the whispered comment to Mom are along the lines of "Mommy, is that Santa Claus?" I'm pretty old but definitely not all white yet. Plus, the pressure to act nice once the Santa question is out there is great.

If you are referenced as looking like a pirate..might as well act like one... aaargh, mately, avast in ye thieving of me docking spaces

Speaking of looks... how do I get a a picture avatar up if I don't have a url referenced picture. I can't seem to find a way to upload a picture directly from my computer.

Thanks...

..take care.. tim b

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: Migoi on April 27, 2009, 04:49:06 am

Belay my last.. in re: (pirate...errr lawyer speech for never mind) about the avatar thingy... I seem to have figured it out... thanks tinypic.com

..take care... tim b

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: grega on April 27, 2009, 08:46:02 am

Hi Tim B ......

1st .... you're not old!

2nd .... how do you get the pic into this forum?

Thnks ... Greg

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: Migoi on April 27, 2009, 08:52:10 am

Greg,

  I went to www.tinypic.com, uploaded the picture from my computer, then cut and pasted the resulting url (they give you 4 or so.. use the one that ends in .jpg, I think it was the bottom one) into the appropriate block of my profile update page here. It doesn't require registration or anything... just go there and upload the pic and copy the url.

..take care... tim b

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: grega on April 27, 2009, 09:50:39 am

Thanks Tim .... I'll try it.

Title: Re: the venture out in public today with wrap on.
Post by: leapyrtwins on April 27, 2009, 11:55:28 am

Wow.  3 new profile pictures!

Thanks Tim, Greg and Mike.  Nice to "see" you guys!

Jan