Thanks for all the prayers and phone calls. Joseph survived his latest ear surgery this Friday (5th major middle ear reconstruction). It came with mixed good and bad news. The good news is everything went well and his doctor thinks he has found the problem and that there is a good chance that Joseph can eventually have decent hearing out of his right ear. The bad news is that the surgery will have to be done in two parts. During this first surgery, they fixed his ear drum. The second surgery will be in six months and they will then fix all the bones in his middle ear. In the meantime, Joseph will probably have worse hearing, especially until all the packing dissolves. Just keep praying for him and talk loud when you see him :)
He has been a real trooper with his recovery. He luckily slept through the worst of it on Friday. He asked me how his dressing looked and I told him he looked like an awesome injured ninja. We got him a milkshake to brighten his day. We rescheduled our Father's Day celebrations for next week, because chewing isn't really fun right now and he wanted to enjoy his special dinner. I told him once the last year of medical school is done and this second surgery is done I'm going to stop paying exorbitant amounts of money to have people do terrible things to him. Hopefully, people will start paying me the big bucks for the privilege of torturing him.
No comments:
Post a Comment