I graduated and it BURNS!!!!!!

Today I had the last round of packing pulled out of my head.

It was replaced with a thick Vaseline-like goo that is going
to help continue the healing process, fight infection, and
finish off my recovery from surgery.
It's also going to ooze out of my head for three weeks

It's thick and sticky and the doc made sure he packed in as much as he could.
He was using his finger to push in goo once the cavity was filled so
he could get more in.

It feels like I have a pair of wet socks in my head.

At least he's not shoving more strips of absorbent material in, because
that sucked a lot.

Hearing test in two weeks.

Oh yeah, the pollen is falling like snow this week.
I had to use the hose on the driveway twice because
it coats the cement, the outdoor furniture, the mail box, everything.

The trees are trying to kill us!

All related to:
Surgery BullshitSo I got unwrapped today and got all the details
from the doctor.
It wasn't good.
In fact it's pretty much the opposite of what I was expecting.
Real simple. In 2013 I had a tumor removed from my
inner ear. It wrecked my hearing.
Then I had a post op infection that lasted almost 3 full months.
After that I had to let the stuff heal and then a follow up
surgery was supposed to reconstruct as much of my hearing
as possible. That was delayed because my Dad passed away
and then my appendix exploded and had to be removed.
Yesterday when I was opened up the doctor found a new
tumor and the planned reconstruction got turned into a demolition.
That's why surgery was an hour longer then expected and
probably why I was in so much pain in recovery.
Originally surgery was supposed to be 3 to 4 hours but
ended up being right around 5. Plus an hour+ in recovery.
It was pretty bad so they gave me something, I dunno what, that
was really strong and had me still feeling the effects a good
seven hours l This is what it feels like....The doctor's visit
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So the shoe lace of pain....it's all noodled in my head mainly.
Some of it is on the outside in the ear canal.
Part of the string has dried to the top of the canal. The blood
scabbed up.
Ever pull a stuck zipper lose?
That ripping grinding noise?
Yeah, that's kind of what it was like when the doctor
started to pull the stuck part but it was my flesh not a zipper
and I could hear it and feel it.
I know, awesome right!
But that wasn't even the worst part, it was just an hors-d'oeuvre.
Because after that he was pulling the rest of the strip
out of my head. That meant pulling any stuck parts inside
lose while also allowing cool fresh air to rush inside to flow
all over the raw meat within.
It was a searing hot painful oven in there. It was great.
The pain killer I took 20 or so minutes ago really didn't
take any edge off of that. I should have just eaten