sheesh

Last week I had some pain at my implant site.  Usually I just wait for things to go away, and I actually did wait four or five days with this.  But it didn't go away, so I made an appointment with my CI surgeon, and today was the first available appointment time I could have.

Naturally, over the weekend the pain receded and it really only hurts now if I poke at it.  But I went anyway, because it's my CI and my hearing and, you know, my head.  

It snowed today so it took me an hour and a half to get into Minneapolis, and then Dr. Huang looked at it and said, well that looks great, I don't see a thing wrong here.  She said she could take a CT scan but completely expected it to be clean.

Okay, but any idea what could have caused it?  Well, she said, can't say for sure, but there are a lot of really big muscles right under your ear there (they  hold your head up), and maybe you had a muscle spasm or something that created an ache right at the base of the implant.

So I probably drove 150 miles for nothing, but at least it's good to know that it's OK.  

And it wasn't really for nothing.  I hadn't seen her since my surgeries, and haven't ever had a chance to thank her properly for her part in this amazing journey of mine, so I did.  I told her what an astounding difference it's made in my life and thanked her for her skill and her part in restoring my hearing.

People should hear these things.

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