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An update on the deaf ear... it is still deaf and it will be until I can get surgery down in Salt Lake...

Yep you read right. Salt Lake! Why? I'll tell you, but first we must start with the beginning! On Monday I got my CT scan. From my untrained eye, it looked okay. Thursday I went to my doctor to see what he had to say.

My mom and I crowded around the computer as my doctor showed us the scan. Turns out I have an abnormal cyst. It has been growing for a while, and it has been growing inside of my ear bones. The cyst has started bending my bones and thinning them done. At one point of the bone it has been worn so thin that the bone may have 'disappeared'. The part of the bone that is gone is the bone right next to the brain. The scan didn't show much, but what it did show, said surgery is on the way. Because the scan only showed the bones and not the actual Cyst we aren't sure the extent of it anymore. The cyst could be growing in my brain. How is that for dramatic?

So needless to say in two weeks I'll be going to a doctor down in Salt Lake. I will be getting an MRI down there. Then a few weeks later I'll be getting surgery. One reason they want it down there is because if anything were to go wrong in the surgery with my brain, they want a neurosurgeon to be on call.