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Wait they replaced your ear drum with cartilage? Does it work? Can you hear?
Yeah, my hearing's normal in the 'problem ear', as good as my non-affected ear, which is pretty fortunate, and there's only a scar way way back behind the ear, where it meets the skull, so it'd be hard for anyone to even notice. I had some recurring cyst thing in my right ear, cholesteatoma, but to remove it they pretty much have to drill behind the ear, cut out the ear drum, remove all the hearing bones, and then remove the cyst from those 2 angles. Then they replace the bones with a titanium rod and replace the ear drum with a small amount of cartilage harvested from the ear. Sounds kinda barbaric, kinda is, but 3 weeks is all it takes to recover from all of that. Even the scar from the incision behind the ear is mostly healed after a couple weeks
Wow sounds intense. Hope things are good and glad you can still hear.
For real! The procedure sounds crazier the longer I read, all the way until removing the tiny bones and replacing them. Hugely impressive that modern medicine allows for working with such delicate and small structures.