Well! It's been two weeks now since surgery. Almost immediately, we traded the red bandage from the hospital for surgical bandages because the red bandage came off every two hours during the night. I was already exhausted from lack of sleep the night of surgery and I desperately needed a good nights rest. The surgical bandages stayed on all night and were really a blessing.

However, sometime last week Rhyan started giving us difficulty when going to bed. Matt and I were brainstorming when he brought up that maybe she was afraid that the bandages were a permanent part of life and it was really frustrating her. The next day I told her that she only had 5 days left of bandages and that she'd also be able to wash her hair in 5 days. She was so excited and our count down began.

Yesterday (a day early) we washed her hair and she was in heaven. All day long she talked about how she was going to have clean hair and she repeatedly demonstrated how we could wash it without getting her incision wet. So, bath time was pretty fun last night!

Things seem to be pretty much back to normal for right now (as normal as they can be during the summer, anyway!) We are now looking forward to Friday, June 22nd, when her new ear will be 'turned on'. Then normalcy will cease once again for about a month. She will have to learn to hear from her left ear without aid from the right, and we are praying that things will go easier than what we've been told.

Either way, we will continue on toward our goal for the end of July. My baby will have two ears. I still can hardly believe it.