Hello all,
It's been a while so I'll recap.... 81 year old mother had a 4.5cm AN removed 11/3/05 at the House Ear Clinic in LA. Eye spring was placed in the right eye 11/11/05.
Mom is doing wonderfully. Balance is back to almost normal. She still uses the walker because her right eye is stil swollen and closed. Every week I see changes. She can now shower be herself, get her breakfast and snacks, go up and down from the curb, eat chocolate and drink coffee. The taste buds are returning, the balance problem is gone and her ability to process things in her mind is better every day. Her short term memory has greatly improved but she does not remember most of last year.
I take her to PT 3 times a week and ST once a week. She has gained 6 lbs. so now she weighs 106 lbs. Some of that is muscle. She can push 70 lbs 40 times on the leg press. Pretty good for an 81 year old woman. We have an EMS machine for her facial muscles and it works ! This means she has a connection in her grafted facial nerve.
Seems everything is positive yardage.
Mary
