ears and pictures

i made this. it was so easy. trust me it looks better in person!

i met with the ear dr yesterday for the results of my ct scan.

the damage in the right ear was caused by hormones and until we are done our family, nothing much can be done. other than an hearing aid. there is no point in fixing it to have it broken again!

left ear. the damage is BONE! not nerve! yipee this is great news! why? bec there are 3 choices

1- operation. go in a fix the bone, reattach/connect and cross fingers the hearing will come back. positive it's free :) negative- my body could resist/fight and flush out the connected bone as a foreign object...and i would need another surgery.

2-hearing aid. i can be fitted for an inner ear aid. in stead of fixing it we would use hearing aids. which is good for me bec i skip the surgery and i can remove the ear pc at night to sleep. it would be hard to adjust to suddenly hear out of the left ear again. sleeping would be hard, i would have to re learn it.

neg side. these hearing aids are very pricey. even with coverage it would cost quite a lot

3- permanent outer hearing aid. i would have a surgery that would screw a metal piece into my skull just above my ear. this metal will show, then a hearing aid would be fitted inside my ear, resulting in almost perfect hearing. forever. there would not be a need for anymore surgery!

neg- i would always have a pc of ugly metal showing, making me not so cute. i am so vain!

so i am going to meet with another specialist to talk pricing for the hearing aid...if it's workable i will most likely get an hearing aid for now

once we are done our family, we will talk the right ear. if i require surgery for that ear i will most likely opt to have both ears done at the same time

so, once again we wait

i like the idea of the hearing aid...i can slip it out and say "hu??? no, i didn't hear nate yelling did you? or what you saying?? help you in the shop? i thought you said mel go shop!"

haha

Posted by mel at 12:17 PM