After the Surgery - So Quiet

[Guest guest]

I had replacement surgery Monday in Oklahoma City. I have had two

surgeries on the right so I can do a little comparing.

My thoughts about my original surgeon and surgery.

I had simultaneous implants - both done during the same surgery on

8/10/2005.

In my opinion the original surgeon most likely did a good job on the

left and just put the right in the best he could at the time. By

doing both implants at the same time did he get tired and finish the

best he could, did he just not care, did he run into something on the

right side of my head and it would have taken too long to put the

right implant in properly or was he experimenting. Or could it

have been the implant all this time causing this and the surgeon had

nothing to do with this except he did the surgery and the implant did

not lay like the left one.

He was suppose to have been one of the best implant surgeons in our

area, I will let you draw your own conclusion. I do not know what he

did to the right side of my head, but what he did if anything just

about drove me crazy with all the racket in my head. All I know is

something was not right with the right implant and it caused problem

after problem with head noise and this surgeon just would not

listen.

From the time I woke up in the hospital in Dallas I had musical

hallucinations and all the racket in my head you could imagine. This

surgeon says this is normal. At the time he did not know what

musical hallucinations were How do I know this - I found an article

on one of the website and sent it to my audiologist at the time and

she sent it to him. This should have been a hint for me from the

beginning that this was not normal, he should have known about

musical hallucinations. I have had the musical hallucinations and

the racket since sugery and it never went away it would just get

quiet and then raise it's ugly little head to torment me. I feel in

my heart if I had not had replacement surgery I would have had this

racket in my head until I died, the implant did or removed. So far

replacement has been very good for me.

I woke up in Oklahoma City and I hear - NO RACKET - and since then I

have mild tinnitus in the right ear. I tried and tried to convince

the original surgeon the noise was in my head and not my ear. What I

hear now is in my ear.

I still have my residual hearing in the right ear, isn't that

something - after two surgeries I still have residual hearing.

The right side never laid right - the left side I do not know the

implant is there the skin over the flap is very smooth and no

pressure anywhere. The right had a deep ridge around the implant

itself, the original surgeon said most likely the left implant would

start protruding like this in time - it is still smooth. I had a lot

of pressure in my right ear which would not go away, swelling in the

implant area, pain plus itching at times, it felt like something was

in my head and did not belong there - like a splinter trying to work

out of your skin, my head felt heavier on the right side and my head

felt lop-sided along with all the racket I was hearing.

I talked with the original surgeon about the right implant a number

of times and in no way did he attempt to find out if there was a

problem with the right implant. Not one time did he suggest a test

or to replace it - his way to deal with it was to remove it. Now I

think about if I had it removed and not replaced I would never have

known it could have been placed differently in my head and lay like

the left.

That's right folks - I have a implant on the right now that feels as

good as the one on the left. I do not know it is in my head except

for a little tightness every now and then - what do I expect after

having surgery Monday and this is Thursday. As far as the noise I

have had just a little bit of tinnitus and I welcome it compared to

what I have been use to.

I knew there was something not right with the right implant and how

it laid in my head - and this reaffirms my belief that the right

should feel as good as the left. So until activation day I am happy

to just wait.

What was wrong with the implant, don't know and won't know until ABC

test it. All I know is I am as happy as a bug in a rug with how my

head feels.

I have to think about this since I have so much peace and quiet with

the replacement implant could it be where the implant had been placed

in my head causing me all my problems with the notorious right

implant or was it the implant. For sure we will use one of the

original surgeon's lines here: " TIME WILL TELL. " OOPS, along with

ABC's report.