I am so blessed to be doing as well as I am. It hasn't been that long and I feel pretty much like normal again. I have had a little ear pain here and there, but the bleeding has stopped. The doctor had to close off my ear with a piece of muscle so that no more cholosteatoma's would grow back. So the stitches in there were bleeding for a bit. But thanks to Neosporin it has stopped. I answered my phone questionare about the care I received at the hospital. Gave props to the doc and all the wonderful nurses who took such good care of me. For all you nurses out there, thank you for putting up with all the BS you have to put up with. Your kindness and patience is much appreciated.
My wife Angie, being a PT, had me doing lots of vestibular exercises early on in the recovery process and it helped me to recover much faster. I can't stress enough to anyone who has to go through this how important the vestibular exercises are.
As for the hearing, I have a friend who has lost hearing in her left ear so I told her we need to team up. With my good left ear and her good right ear, we can have normal conversations with people. Haha! I will just have to sit through her conversations about teaching and purses and stuff, and she will have to sit through my conversations of hunting and other man activities. Ha!
