Gina's Ramblings

And only remember th bad times of his childhood? I swear DS#1 cannot catch a break. It seems if it could go wrong with him it has.
Today was his ENT appointment. First the doctor went in to clean out the wax that was darn near clogging the entire canal. You know that scene in Shrek? Where he pulls out the wax and makes a candle? Yeah I had visions of that scene during the clean out.
The right ear (his good ear. Still has the perferation.
She goes in to look at the left ear, and says "wow". OK that is NEVER good when a doctor says "wow". She called me over to look in the scope and there is this big bulging part of the eardrum. He now has a Cholesteatoma It is a cyst growth. We are not sure how long it has been growing, how agressive it is, or if it has 'eaten' any of the bones in his inner ear. They will be doing a biopsy of it as well when they take it out.
He has a CT scan the first part of June to hopefully see how big it is. Also so they will have a 'map' for when they do the surgery.
The surgery is scheduled for Aug 29th. It was planned around his summer vacation and of course PAX. This will put him at the far end of 'as long as the doctor wants to wait to do the surgery' stage. They do not want to wait too terribly long because it can grow. But with the surgery schedule the doctors schedule and DS#1's schedule Aug works for everyone. We just put it off one more week until after PAX.
So there we have it. Another OMG thing happening with him.
Will he go deaf? is it a congenital defect? is it a fluke? Will it come back? Will the extra hearing loss he is now suffering be permanant?
UGH!!!!
I really do want to scream "IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


My good news of the day is about me. All of my bloodwork is fine. No high Cholesterol no thyroid problems, no potassium problems etc etc. Blood pressure is just stress induced. Days like today do not help.