Final tumor removal

Home from surgery resting.

first dressing changing . .

fresh stitches

It has been 7 months since the removal of the tumor from Aaron's right ear. During that first surgery the Dr. discovered that he did in fact have another tumor in the left ear. We thought that this one was not going to be as big so we debated back and forth weather or not to have this surgery this year or to wait until next year. Well we figured we might as well just get it done and over with. Thank goodness we did because it turned out that this tumor was just as aggressive as the other one.

Surgery started around 7:30am and it lasted a little over 3 hours. Aaron had a little harder time in recovery and was in quite a bit of pain so they wouldn't let me back to see him and they gave him more narcotics to make him comfortable. After he was stable they released him to come home. After speaking with the Dr. he told me that the surgery was a success and there was no spinal fluid leaks or nerve damage. However, the tumor destroyed 2 out of the 3 major bones in the ear so he had to attach the ear drum to the last remaining bone in hopes to save his hearing. Only time will tell if that worked. Praying it did work so he won't have to undergo another surgery to put titanium "bones" in to replace the ones that were destroyed.

With all said and done we are glad we went ahead with the surgery and hope that the remainder of the recovery will go well and all hearing will be restored.