Saturday, September 02, 2006
The boy
Well that title doesn't narrow a darn thing down does it?? haha well #1 son is doing great after his surgery. First after getting it into my mind that check-in was 15 minutes later than it was. I drove the hour and 20 minute drive in about one hour and we got there 10 minutes early!!
He got all checked in. They even put an armband on Yogi, the bear he made at Build-a-bear. We joked Yogi needed surgery too because 2 years ago Gunther chewed the bears ear off lol.
We got in and he got setteled. They went through all of the check-in stuff and they actualy took him back for surgery early.
Oh it turns out the week before his doctor made the 'best doctors in Seattle' in a magazine. Apparently she makes it every year.
The surgery took approximately 2 hours. The doctor said the cholesteatoma was "much larger" than the CT showed in May. about two times larger!! She tried to get all of the cells but with the size, aggressiveness and position of the c'toma she doubts she was able to get it all. He will be seen at six months post-op and if there is a visual of another c'toma he will get a CT. If she doesn't see anything he will get a CT at 1 year post-op to check for regrowth. If the c'toma is back, he will have yet another surgery.
She got in the inner ear during an exploratory and saw that he needed another Perilymphatic fistula (PLF) repair.. He has had this same surgery in the same ear before. It helped him by stopping his hearing loss to progress any more. She hopes this repair will help or stop the fluctuation in the hearing loss.
He came home and that night was doing amazingly well. He is still doing GREAT. This surgery, although the most in depth, has been the easiest for him to recover from, thus far.
He is such a champ he really is.
So at this point we wait. We will know in 6 months to a year if another surgery is in his future.
So there is the update
He got all checked in. They even put an armband on Yogi, the bear he made at Build-a-bear. We joked Yogi needed surgery too because 2 years ago Gunther chewed the bears ear off lol.
We got in and he got setteled. They went through all of the check-in stuff and they actualy took him back for surgery early.
Oh it turns out the week before his doctor made the 'best doctors in Seattle' in a magazine. Apparently she makes it every year.
The surgery took approximately 2 hours. The doctor said the cholesteatoma was "much larger" than the CT showed in May. about two times larger!! She tried to get all of the cells but with the size, aggressiveness and position of the c'toma she doubts she was able to get it all. He will be seen at six months post-op and if there is a visual of another c'toma he will get a CT. If she doesn't see anything he will get a CT at 1 year post-op to check for regrowth. If the c'toma is back, he will have yet another surgery.
She got in the inner ear during an exploratory and saw that he needed another Perilymphatic fistula (PLF) repair.. He has had this same surgery in the same ear before. It helped him by stopping his hearing loss to progress any more. She hopes this repair will help or stop the fluctuation in the hearing loss.
He came home and that night was doing amazingly well. He is still doing GREAT. This surgery, although the most in depth, has been the easiest for him to recover from, thus far.
He is such a champ he really is.
So at this point we wait. We will know in 6 months to a year if another surgery is in his future.
So there is the update
