Category: Ears

You may be wondering, “Hey, Todd, how’s your ear thing?”  Well, tomorrow marks 3 weeks since my surgery.  As I wrote in my last post on the topic, nearly a week ago, we’re into the stage of small, slow improvement.  But there definitely has been improvement over the past week. With the help of my… Continue reading three weeks post-op

For  a while there, I was trying to write a blog entry every day describing how my recovery’s going. But it’s been a few days, so I’ll just try to bring readers up to date. On Tuesday, I did lots of resting.  Beth’s nature hike Monday wore me out, and I wanted to build up… Continue reading my thoughts 2 weeks post-op

Here’s a note about the progress of my recovery from ear/brain/skull surgery.  Today is Monday January 19, 2009, which is 11 days post-op. Yesterday afternoon, while I was resting from our visit to Hammond, Beth went birding and discovered the Northlake Nature Center.  So we decided to visit today.  It was supposed to be an… Continue reading hiking the non-existent Long Leaf Pine Loop: surgery rehab update January 19, 2009

Here’s a quick note about the progress of my recovery from ear/brain/skull surgery.  Today is Sunday January 18, 2009, which is 10 days post-op. Beth and I spent the morning on a country drive from Covington to Hammond, Louisiana, taking what’s essentially “the back way” on an older highway north of both towns.  There’s lots… Continue reading downtown Hammond on a lazy Sunday: surgery rehab update January 18, 2009

It’s Saturday.  Beth and I spent the afternoon at Fontainebleau State Park walking around a big loop Nature Trail they have there.  We’d visited this park a few days ago, and I walked out the pier onto Lake Pontchartrain, and relaxed some on the park bench.  This time, I was ready for a much longer… Continue reading a day at the park

Todd’s big event for Friday January 16: spinal tap.  And I mean that with lowercase “s” and “t”.  Though I’m a huge fan of the band and the film, this was my first opportunity to get my very own spinal tap.  Well, in all fairness, I did have one before (last Thursday in fact), but… Continue reading spinal tap

Hi, everyone.  Today’s big milestone with respect to my SCDS surgery recovery was my one week checkup with the surgeon.  Hurray, I survived the first week!  🙂 Dr. Gianoli said immediately that he thought I was looking good, as if perhaps some of his patients make their one week checkup appointments on hands and knees… Continue reading results of my one week ear checkup

I realize I owe my loyal readers an update on my surgery recovery – or at least something about what I’ve done the past couple days.  But for now I thought I’d just list all the medicines I’m on, because it’s a long list.  One of my fellow SCDS patients, referring to how things were… Continue reading Todd’s pill list