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When the ear doctor looked at the scan he couldn't see the mass he'd been expecting to see. But he did see that Eor's middle ear (I think it is) has an odd ... 'consistency' (?) to it. There's a sponge-like material in there, and in his left ear it looks like a sponge, but in his right ear it looks more like swiss cheese - thicker material, fewer holes, but larger holes.
After using a pressure gauge they determined that he did have a small hole in his eardrum, and they decided they'd at least have to fix that. Apparently some imbalance of pressure caused a weak point in his ear drum to buckle in (at some point, we don't know when or why - perhaps coming down in an airplane), and a hole resulted. (The doctor was thinking that the buckled in part would have crap caught in it, and that would be the mass.)
So, a week ago he went in, they put him under general anesthesia, and they began surgery thinking it would just be fixing the ear drum. I went accross the road to WalMart to get his prescriptions filled (antibiotics and pain killers). When I got back the surgery was taking a lot longer than I had expected. This made me nervouse... and then the receptionist told me that when they got in there they found they had to do a mastoidectomy! That didn't sound too good. Well, the doctor came out and talked with me about it. He said it did turn out there was a small mass, but they were able to make a relatively small incision above his ear and only had to take out a little bone to get in, so this shouldn't affect his hearing. That sounded much better than the word 'mastoidectomy'.
Still, Eor hasn't been able to move around a whole lot - anything that starts his blood moving even just a little gives him a splitting headache. He's not supposed to bend down too much, lift anything, or strain in any way that might increase the blood pressure in his head.
Add that on top of the ingrown nail surgery he'd had on his toe the week _before_ the ear operation, and another ingrown surgery on the opposite big toe yesterday (nearly a week after the ear) and you've got a situation where he has to sit and sleep in a sort of V position. He's not exactly a happy camper.
We've both been escaping reality by playing an online multi-player game, which is kind of cool... gives at least a little interaction with other people, and an illusion of activity. But in general, even there, I've become terribly terribly unmotivated, lately. Which is why I hadn't posted to my journal in ages.
Well, I'll try to post again tomorrow and make it shorter, and get the rest of the past week caught up.
After using a pressure gauge they determined that he did have a small hole in his eardrum, and they decided they'd at least have to fix that. Apparently some imbalance of pressure caused a weak point in his ear drum to buckle in (at some point, we don't know when or why - perhaps coming down in an airplane), and a hole resulted. (The doctor was thinking that the buckled in part would have crap caught in it, and that would be the mass.)
So, a week ago he went in, they put him under general anesthesia, and they began surgery thinking it would just be fixing the ear drum. I went accross the road to WalMart to get his prescriptions filled (antibiotics and pain killers). When I got back the surgery was taking a lot longer than I had expected. This made me nervouse... and then the receptionist told me that when they got in there they found they had to do a mastoidectomy! That didn't sound too good. Well, the doctor came out and talked with me about it. He said it did turn out there was a small mass, but they were able to make a relatively small incision above his ear and only had to take out a little bone to get in, so this shouldn't affect his hearing. That sounded much better than the word 'mastoidectomy'.
Still, Eor hasn't been able to move around a whole lot - anything that starts his blood moving even just a little gives him a splitting headache. He's not supposed to bend down too much, lift anything, or strain in any way that might increase the blood pressure in his head.
Add that on top of the ingrown nail surgery he'd had on his toe the week _before_ the ear operation, and another ingrown surgery on the opposite big toe yesterday (nearly a week after the ear) and you've got a situation where he has to sit and sleep in a sort of V position. He's not exactly a happy camper.
We've both been escaping reality by playing an online multi-player game, which is kind of cool... gives at least a little interaction with other people, and an illusion of activity. But in general, even there, I've become terribly terribly unmotivated, lately. Which is why I hadn't posted to my journal in ages.
Well, I'll try to post again tomorrow and make it shorter, and get the rest of the past week caught up.