This is completely unrelated to the recent biopsy
drama, but I figured I’d share a little bit of good news for a change!
Over a year ago I had an ear tube placed to
drain some fluid and treat a stubborn infection. It was expected to fall out on
its own as the eardrum healed over the next 6-12 months, but a year later it
was still in place. The ENT tried to remove it in August but that REALLY hurt,
so we decided to give it a few more months and hope for the best. The ENT also
let me know that between diabetes and my anti-rejection meds impeding my
healing, and the fact that the tube had been in for so long, it was possible
that the hole in my eardrum might never close completely even after the tube came
out.
I had my follow up appointment today, and braced
myself for a very painful tube removal. But when she looked in my ear, there
was the tube, already out of my eardrum and just sitting in my ear canal
waiting to be easily and painlessly removed! And even better, it looks like the
hole in my eardrum has fully healed!
The other good news is that ever since the ENT
manipulated the tube back in August, I pretty much haven’t had any more of the
dizzy spells that had been plaguing me over the previous year. So it seems the
tube was likely the cause of those unpleasant symptoms, and hopefully now that
it’s gone that will finally be the end of that.
I’ve had a lot of bad and scary and stressful
medical news lately, so it was REALLY nice for something to go right for a
change. Hopefully this will be the start of things moving in the right
direction!
