If my husband was not such an odd ball we wouldn't have found out anything was in there ...he always wants to get the one hanging on the wall and peek in someone’s ear while we are waiting for doctors ….he almost lost a finger a couple weeks ago working on some farm equipment and when we were in ER treatment room he was fiddling with stuff ...he took my blood pressure, listen to my heart beat and wanted to look in my ears then …wish I had let him so someone with a medical degree of some kind could have peeked in …. he also wants to give someone stitches
..he is just a strange bird ... the kids were trying to take a picture of it with my camera on macro setting so I could see what ever was in there but never got a good one
with the odd things that have cropped up since surgery , I am beginning to think the doctor that I was perfectly happy with for my surgery and the 3 1/2 year he treated me before surgery was not the right man ... but since I can't go back and get a re-do I am gonna roll with the punches and cross my eyes that this is a simple fix ... and thank someone that I do have a nutty husband that wants to peek in peoples ears ...
Anyway , it is confirmed … I have tubes in my deaf ear … everyone that has had input is in the opinion that they need to come out … when PCP has looked in my ear , the canal has been swollen and once there was an infection and fluid was in my ear , so he couldn’t see them … if they are stopped up it could explain the fullness and why I have ear aches with no evident infection … figure they were put in to drain ear or sinuses into throat ….
When MRI from December 2008 was reviewed today you could see a thin line that just kind looks like a pencil line … the one line we see on MRI doesn’t look like a tube but the radiologist says it is because the material doesn’t show up as much more than a shadow … doctors wanted me to have an MRI every year but with insurance change that hasn’t been an option since they say that it is not necessary …
if they have to be removed I think it should be done at no charge …since according to hospital records they are not there and I have never had any ear surgery or had my head open for any other surgery … they were probably put in to drain fluids to my throat til my head was healed inside …but this is a just guess … I have small canals and before surgery when they were tracking hearing loss they had to use the smallest plugs in my ears …so drain tubes may make sense but would like to have known so when my ear was full and achy I could have done something other than just take it as part of my new normal … doctor said if they are not adhered to any tissue that they should be able to just slip them out in the office with a spray of numbing agent in my ear …
I am a bit P-O’ed … I just don’t need anything else right now …and my insurance will roll over January 1 and I will have to start all over on my $2400 deductible and $2400 out of pocket before insurance starts picking up …and audiologist that was called can’t get me in until mid January but has me on list for any cancellation before January first … CIGNA used to pay a percentage and we would be billed the rest … BCBS doesn’t pay a penny until we meet our yearly share … GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
