Re: Surgical Followup-Connie

[Guest guest]

Connie,

Glad to hear that you are feeling so well!..thats great news. Best wishes on a continuing recovery.

Sincerely,

Renonda

[Guest guest]

Hi Connie, I am glad you are feeling better. Are you having any thing

going on with vertigo after some of the packing came out? Just

curiouse....

-- In cholesteatoma , conniedcj@y... wrote:

> Hi Everone,

>

> I went yesterday for my first surgical followup. The doc didn't

> remove all the packing. Boo. Wanted to wait another week. He did

> however take out the most annoying peice so I am more comfortable.

>

> He explained what he did when he was in there. He said that since

the

> ctoma was up high in the attic, he had to remove some bone in order

to

> access it. My one remaining hearing bone (which was non functioning

> anyway) was eroded from the ctoma. He grafted cartilidge to cover

> where the bone was cut away in the attic. Then he grafted a new ear

> drum and put in a prosthesis made of teflon and something else (?)

> anchoring it to the back of the middle ear.

>

> I asked him what the success rate was for someone with my history.

He

> told me 70%. Okay, it's better than 50%.

>

> I also asked him about flying -- since I have trip paid for on

January

> 2nd. He said that he could tell me next week when he takes the

> remainer of the packing out. At this point, he believes I will be

> able to fly. If worse comes to work, I take the Amtrak.

>

> I'm feeling really great! I still have a lot of tinnitus (both

> ringing and buzzing), but otherwise feel like my old self less than

> two weeks post surgery.

>

> Good luck to everyone with surgeries this week.

>

> Connie