DECEMBER 19, 2011.

December 19, 2011. This is the day that I get the pleasure of having my inner ear/ ear drum reconstructed. Yes, it is true. I found out for sure that I do need the surgery yesterday. My ear drum is perforated, and its basically just not there. The doc new within 5 seconds of looking in my ear that it needed surgery. The surgery could take up to 3 hours, and it is an outpatient one, which is nice. I have to take the rest of the week off from work, to just lay low basically. The surgery could cause dizziness, and of course there will be some pain! The recovery is pretty fast though the doc said. He said the goal of the surgery is for me to have a safe ear, and hopefully not get infections anymore, and not have all these problems I have been having. He also said that it may restore my hearing! He is not positive, especially in my case, because the surgery on my ear will be a bit more difficult than the other ones he has done, just because of how bad it is. I said I would rather have a safe ear over my hearing. I have lived without most of my hearing in my left ear for most of my life, so I will deal. This is why they have hearing aids! I won't know if my hearing is restored until 6-9 weeks after the surgery. So only time will tell! Hopefully everything goes well with the surgery and all the draining I have been having stops, but if not, then I will have to get a permanent tube put in my ear. UGH. He would put it in differently than they did when I was younger, so that it doesn't injure my ear again if it were to pop out. (yes, tubes popped out of my ears when I was younger. I was messed up basically...lol) Anyways, lets hope they do not have to do that. So, That will be my christmas present basically, a new inner ear! haha.

I just thought I would update any family that wanted to know! I will keep everyone posted.

Brittany

It has been to LONG!

So sorry for the lack of posting! Not much has really been going, until this past month at least! I guess the biggest thing going on right now has to do with my Left ear. A little over a month ago it started hurting me really bad, and that is not a good thing given I have a really bad history with my left ear. (Long story short, I had numerous bad ear infections as a child, had tubes that would literally pop out of my ears and I have scarring ... THIS IS NOT MEANT TO SCARE ANYONE! My ears are VERY abnormal apparently.) So anyways, I went to my regular doctor and he said nothing was wrong, but he still wanted me to go see an ENT just incase. So I did, and HE said there WAS an infection, and it was pretty bad. Soooo, I went on antibiotics for 2 weeks and went back. Infection was still there, so I was on them for ANOTHER 2 weeks, and then had to get a catscan because he was worried that this could be a chronic thing that I have had for awhile. So, I had the catscan done and went back today and found out that it is bad. I have whats called "mastoiditus" (spelling?) AND my ear drum is practically stuck to the back wall of my ear, causing me to loose SEVENTY percent of my hearing. So, the doctor said today that I am a candidate to have surgery on my ear where they would DRILL in the back of my ear and clean out the mastoid bone and possibly reconstruct my ear drum and all that jazz. I have to meet with his partner for a second opinion (which he recommended me to, which I really liked, because he has not done this surgery in awhile so he wanted to make SURE that I do need it. He said he would be surprised if the doc said I did not.) So anyways, basically this is and has been a ticking time bomb as the doctor put it. Either I could do nothing and it gets a lot worse, or I get the surgery. So yeah, I have been a mess all day. It is not what I needed to hear. I had a bad feeling that it would not be good. LUCKILY I have had my mom through all this. She has come to EVERY single appointment with me, which has been like every week, and I can not thank her more! She was supposed to go to Cape May this coming week but she is staying home so she can come with me to my appt. with the other Doctor. I LOVE MY MOMMY<3 I am strong when it comes to anything else. I was fine with the surgery I had 2 years ago, I was okay when I injured my feet a bajillion times in dance, but when it comes to my left ear... I just cannot handle it. To many traumatizing experiences when I was younger. So, sorry for the long detailed explanation, but I figured some people would want to know. So now onto happier things! Here are some pics of the last few months!

We had our annual Ward Labor Day Picnic which I and another girl were in-charge of, and it was a hit! Thank GOODNESS for Facebook for this! We were only able to announce it in church like once because of Stake Conference and then the hurricane we had. I made a sign up group on FB and was reminding everyone like all the time, and it was PACKED! YAY!

We made new friends and had a taco/game night, and they rearranged our furniture when they came over... haha! We had to make space for everyone!

I cut my hair, like a lot! and I LOVE IT.

Other than all that things have been okay. The kids I nanny for are back in school so I am working part time which is starting to take a toll on us money wise. Luckily though I have been picking up some extra hours with another family, I babysat for them a week ago and I am babysitting this coming week twice! So that has been nice, but its still stressful! John is trying to figure our some school stuff which is so not fun either, Ugh! Being an adult stinks sometimes!

Ok, I believe that is it! Now its time to ready for the HOLIDAYS! I cannot wait to start decorating for Christmas! =)