Well life at the Junction has certainly not been slow the past couple weeks.  For a few couple months now, I’ve known that I would most likely need to have ear surgery. I’ve had ear problems my whole life (had my first set of ear tubes at 18 months old ! ) and it had had finally resulted in a  Cholesteatoma . The procedure was finally scheduled for the 10th of Aug,  but the weekend of the 1st while out to lunch with my friend and my mom, I started getting dizzy and nauseous. 5 days later I was in bed and still not eating. I had even been to be receive IV fluids in between since I was dehydrated, but nothing was helping.

Finally that next Thursday as I was huddled over the toilet, I told hubs ” I think I should be in the hospital”.  He agreed, saying said he had been just about to say the same thing, and made some calls. 1 hour later, my Dr. met me at the hospital,  I was admitted, and I had surgery the next afternoon.  I am doing so much better now !  I still have some healing to do, and have to wait another week until we know how much my hearing will return, but over all the Dr. is very happy with my progress and I’m able to do pretty much everything now except for going to the gym and getting on airplanes.

I got many nice facebook messages, cards, gifties, calls from family and friends saying they were sending positive thoughts and prayers, and hubs was there for through the whole thing. He spent 3 nights on a hospital cot, he relayed messages to concerned friends, he cooked when I couldn’t, he made sure I took my medicine,  he even says he stayed awake to make sure I didn’t roll over onto my surgerized (yes, my word) ear.  He was totally there for me, and I am truly so so so so so lucky and grateful  to have him in my life.

I’m doing much better now, and my recovery has been speedy and fairly pain free.  In three days I go back to the Dr. for a follow up and to have a hearing test, to see if I’ve gained back any of the hearing I lost.

While I was having these health issues I realized that once health isn’t there, it become an immediate PRIORITY. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.  I really want to make sure to take care of myself in every way possible.