

Yup my darling sweetie, had his ear surgery. His what SHOULD have been simple "DAY" surgery. This however is NOT what transpired. Simple Day surgery turned into a nightmare of serious complications. Every complication you can imagine. First off he stopped breathing during surgery, and so he is being sent to a sleep apnea clinic, because it looks like he has a pretty severe case of it. This stopping breathing while on anesthetic put stress on his heart and lungs and to top it off he supposedly pulled out his breathing tube while coming to. ( HOW YOU CAN DO THIS WHILE ON ANESTHETIC AND WHILE YOU ARE BEING WATCHED BY HEALTHCARE PROFFESIONALS IS BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION) So because of pulling this tube out, his lungs deflated, it created a negative suction which filled his lungs with fluid. So he was put on the Darth Vader mask as they call it ( Ventalin ) and it was locked on his face and did all the breathing for him - because his lungs where not capable. He was on this for a day and a night, and then slowly each day graduated down to positve pressure oxygen masks for the reamainder of his stay. Oh and every time he removed the mask his blood oxygen saturation levels dropped way below normal so he stayed. He stayed at the hospital until late friday night, we came home Saturday afternoon. Oh yes and the liquid in his lungs - got infected and he got Pneumonia. Fun times at Surrey Memorial.
But that's not all
Yesterday we went for a follow up with his surgeon, to find out how the actual surgery went. You know to see is the 98% chance of gaining his hearing back was succesfull....
heres' the scoop
When the doctor went in, first off he noticed that Jer's ear bones are congenitally deformed, so the procedure was a little more complicated. Also while going in there is the nerve that works your whole side of your face, well Jer's unlike most peoples is completley exposed, so if the ENT wasn't careful Jer would have had permanent paralysis on the whole side of his face. So because of having to work around this difficulty, it took a little longer, and to top it all off while trying to get to the bone that needed to be removed, another bone slipped loose that shouldn't have and he had to cut a piece of Jer's earlobe off to get the fat from it to hold the bone in place. So with all these complications Jer's chance of hearing improvement has dropped from 98% to 50%. So all this could be for absolutley NOTHING, and he'll just have to get a hearing aid after all.
Ya so that's why I havn't blogged in a while.....