Miles Surgery

[BARRYS770]

As I recall, Our friend, Miles (aka Sparky), will be undergoing surgery tomorrow, Dec. 4, to repair a ruptured eardrum. Good Luck with your surgery and for a full and speedy recovery.

Barry

[ED209]

good luck :biggthumpup:

[MichaelG]

Thank you guys. I got "the" phone call today from the surgery center, and I am to report to duty... ha ha ha...tomorrow at 10:25 am. :icon_frown:

[F6BPDX]

Best Wishes for a speedy recovery Miles. 'riding'

[Mustangjake]

Good luck Miles hope all goes well

[hiflyer]

Good luck Miles hope all goes well

Same here Miles!

[1951vbs]

Best wishes and speedy recovery so you can ride on the dark side! 'dark-side'

[F6B-RICH]

Good luck tomorrow Miles :motorcycle2:

[FlaMike]

Best Wishes on a smooth surgery & quick recovery..dickie-deals.

[Steve 0080]

Well at least you will be able to sleep in... if that is possible... still better than being at the hospital at 6 AM..... Good Luck..Make sure they do the correct ear !!!!

[Gonzo]

Get well soon Sparky... Gonzo





As I recall, Our friend, Miles (aka Sparky), will be undergoing surgery tomorrow, Dec. 4, to repair a ruptured eardrum. Good Luck with your surgery and for a full and speedy recovery.

Barry

[Deer Slayer]

Good luck Miles. you will be in our thoughts. :rock:

[MichaelG]

Well at least you will be able to sleep in... if that is possible... still better than being at the hospital at 6 AM..... Good Luck..Make sure they do the correct ear !!!!

Steve, if only that was true about sleeping in. Whith the Llamas and Alpacas and miniature Goats...and let's not forget the chickens...I am up very early every morning, so I can let the chickens out, and feed the big-uns. Wife says I can get a break on Thursday morning, as I may be too much out of it.

I am also drawing a circled target around the Right ear, so they cut into the correct one. :icon_frown:

Thanks for the best wishes everyone. :039:

[GiddyupF6B]

Good luck with the surgery Miles! Hell you survived the best shot Mother nature could dish out so a little surgery should be a piece if cake....

[motozeke]

Best wishes for a speedy and full recovery, Miles!

[Paul B Blues]

All the best Miles, hope you are back to peek fitness soon mate. :yes:

[Darkknight]

Good luck Sparky!

[jkelley]

Good luck Miles!

[Retired Army]

The very best to you and heal quickly, keep us in the loop.

[Kawi69]

Good Luck Miles I hope you have a speedy recovery 'riding'

[kjelders]

Good luck bro with your new bionic ear! You will soon be able to hear the lightening bolt seconds before it strikes! :shock::icon_mrgreen:

[timjoebob]

Best wishes for a speedy FULL recovery!

That was a good idea of circling the correct ear for the surgeon.

Now a joke: Don't know if you're a golfer, but Lee Trevino was once walking down the fairway when a reporter asked him if he had any advice for avoiding getting struck by lightning. (He and a fellow golfer were struck several years ago) Lee quipped, "Just carry a 1-Iron in your bag. When you see lightning, pull out the 1-Iron and hold it up. Even God can't hit a 1-Iron."

Blessings as you recover, Miles!

[MSGT-R]

I wonder if they drew a big arrow on Miles' cheek (?)

That surgery should be a quicky, and he can't be saying "huh?" anymore. :icon_mrgreen:

Back to the world of STEREO Miles!

[BigO]

Good luck with your surgery!!

[Limbuck]

Mary and I wish you a speedy recovery Miles.

[BubbaJePH]

I wish you the best. May you have a speedy recovery. Not too much dizziness and your bionic ear be better than before your injury. :lolup:

[Bama Bagger]

Hey Miles, praying all is good for you today! 'angel'

[srkeet]

:yes:

I second all the above emotions!

God bless 'ya, buddy

srkeet

[Steve 0080]

I am wondering if the doc's put his ear back on right side up.......

[kjelders]

I received an email from Miles this morning around 3am. The surgery went well. However, as you know Miles doesn't do things the easy way. According to his wife, Miles was in a medical induced coma. The anesthesiologist apparently miscalculated the dosage and the post op nurses could not get Miles awake. Miles personal physician was called in and there was a heated exchange between the two physicians and Miles was admitted to the hospital next door so that he could be monitored while the anesthesia wore off. He had an elevated heart rate as well.

The good news is he should be going home sometime today. I could tell from his email that he was coherent. He basically sent me a short story email. I sent Miles back a reply email this morning and ask him to look in the mirror to make sure they didn't sew his ear upside. I plan to visit him this weekend and I will have my framing square and tape measure to make sure his ear is in the correct anatomical position.

[MSGT-R]

Just don't raise your voice..

I bet a heated exchange! His wife needs to get into contact with the hospital general manager and the insurance company to make sure they don't wind up paying for that additional hospital time; their mistake, their bill.

[kjelders]

their mistake, their bill.

It stated that in his email....he got a private hospital room and he won't be paying for it!

[MichaelG]

I would like to THANK all of you for the well wishes. I appreciate that.

I got home today about 1:30 pm, after being released from the hospital earlier, and then a previously scheduled doctors appt. as a follow-up to the surgery from yesterday. The doc this morning was the surgeon that cut me open and sewed me back up. According to him, the surgery went very well. He said that once he got in there, the forward 2/3 of my right ear drum was completely gone, and onloy the back 1/3 of the ear drum was still there. They took a skin graft from the backside of my ear (outside) and inserted it on the inside of my ear drum, then backfilled the space further inside the ear drum area with a disolvable jel, to fill that space and put pressure on the new skin graft, to help it adhere to the ear drum. Then he placed my ear back in correct alignment (I checked) and sewed it back in place. :yikes:

Today, no pain, and I am off the pain meds. Now I only take the antibiotics. I am not into pain meds, so the faster I get off them the better.

He says it will take about 2 months for the dissolvable jel to dissipate to the point of being gone, so that the new ear drum can function properly, and he does not plan to do a hearing test for up to 6 months from now. :icon_frown:

No riding for 2 months (yeah, sure):icon_wink:, and no flying for that same time. No blowing of the nose either. :icon_redface::icon_mrgreen:

BTW, the issue yesterday by the anesthesiologist was far too much meds...and it did not put me in a medicaly induced coma, but damn close to it. Had my wife not intervened (she is a doctor too), then I have have been worse off. Good to have someone close watching my back. They will be discussing what he did wrong, and changes will be implemented.:nono: The surgery I had is designed to be an outpatient procedure, with the operation taking about 2 hours. Due to the slip up by the anesthesiologist, and I couldn't wake up on my own, they had to transport me next door to the hospital, and medically wake me back up, and then I was "wired" awake since yesterday. Awake all night long, and have not slept since yesterday afternoon. At least I got a private room, and they are paying for all of that.

So, I am home, I am feeling fine, very much up and around, and have to remind myself not to overdo it.

Again, thank you for all the well wishes. :rock:

[Hornblower]

Welcome back, Miles 'welcome gang'
It's great to see you back on the forum so quickly. We'll keep praying for a speedy recovery. Now, where's that helmet with the special ear pocket :idea:

[Deer Slayer]

Great news Sparky. :cheers:

[Retired Army]

I think the doc was referring to flying while on wing (Gold Wing that is).:wheelchair wheelie:

[choptop]

Best of luck Miles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!

[BubbaJePH]

I'm glad you are doing so well. Remember to sneeze with your mouth open too. Prevents much back pressure on the back side of the ear drum. They usually use fat pads behind the ear. Glad they did not use your backside fat pad. When you would break wind your ear would wiggle. :yikes: Did you get to wer one of those sexy ear cups? I am a Recovery Room Nurse. I've worked with heavy handed anesthesia providers since 1986. Not everyone responds the same way with dosing and medications. Today we had a doc that wanted to give all these different medications to a child that just went through a sick appendix. I told my coworker, use a few drugs as possible and give them IV fluid boluses. These drugs can make each other stronger than alone. :banghead:

[1951vbs]

Miles, you are one cool cat! :rock: Welcome back and thanks for the update.

[MichaelG]

Did you get to wer one of those sexy ear cups? I am a Recovery Room Nurse. I've worked with heavy handed anesthesia providers since 1986. Not everyone responds the same way with dosing and medications.


Bubba, I did in fact get issued one of those sexy ear cups. It looked like an athletic supporter protection cup, being worn on the ear. It was quite funny looking, and I just kept telling people, "stop staring at my ear". They just laughed. :icon_lol: When I saw the doctor today for a follow-up, he removed it, and placed it in a bag for me to put in my collection.

As for the heavy handed anesthesiologist, the issue was they only use the parameters of the patients weight, height, body mass, and how long the operation would normally take, to determine how long the patient will be out for. The problem with those limited parameters is that it does not take the individual physiology of the individual patient into accord, so...if you have two patients, that both weigh the same, are the same height, and the same body mass, and are both in for the exact same operation...does the anesthesiologist give both of these people the exact same IV drug to knock them out? What if one of them is an admitted alcoholic, and has a very high tolerance for mind alterning substances, whereas the other patient...i.e., ME, does not drink alcohol at all, does not smoke tobacco at all, and does not use illegal drugs at all (and this was all explained to the anesthesiologist in fine detail), so the same drug given to the alcoholic patient that would have little affect, will turn me into a mind dead coma patient in a snap.

A simple analogy, give patient A a six pack of beer, and he hardly gets a buzz, but give patient B a six pack of beer, and he is drunk on his butt with the first bottle of beer.

This is what the anesthesiologist was unwilling to take into account. I have a very low tolerance to any kind of mind altering drug, because my system is so clean from anything like that, and is not used to taking anything like that. When he issued a full does of meds, I dropped out (literally) in one second, and did not wake up for several hours, after they had to medically wake me up. When they brought my wife into the recovery room, she immediately spotted that something was wrong, and she forced the nurses to call my surgical doctor.:nono:

Bottom line, I am much better now, home, and feeling fine. Life goes on.:039:

Let's get back to bikes and riding.:icon_mrgreen:

[Philbert40]

Glad to hear everything is good! Take it easy.....looking forward too seeing you in Oregon this summer.

[MSGT-R]

God how I hate anesthesia! The last out-patient procedure I had (before my accident) didn't go so well either. Whatever it was that the guy gave me put me out for 6 hours and I had BAD vertigo for another half a day.

[Bruce B]

Sounds like you're well on the road to recovery, Miles. Wishing you all the best.

[hondabikepro]

sounds like your doing well, thats good you will be riding before you no it. and you did get your wish, it snowed at my place Thursday, and the hill is all ice and snow, have to use the jeep to get up and down the hill. but my bike is all clean, and under a cover. The salt removal product that we use on the boats worked really good on cleaning of the salt and deicer. dale

[Limbuck]

D--A--M--N That says it all. Good to see you back on the forum. I hope you don't ride sideways now or something.. You must return to the NC rally next year. If nothing else we need a show and tell

[contek]

Our thoughts are with you.

[MichaelG]

Just to add a bit of humor to this...it has been one week to the day since they tried to make me look like Vincent van Gogh, and my ear is still attached to the side of my head.

They must have used Gorilla Glue. :yikes:

:lolup::yikes::lolup::yikes::lolup::yikes::lolup:: yikes::lolup:

[Philbert40]

Glad the ear is doing well......now if they just do something with that nose! :moon:

[MichaelG]

Glad the ear is doing well......now if they just do something with that nose! :moon:

Phil, you do have a good point, and not just on the top of your head :duck:

My ear surgeon is also a nose specialist...they used to call them ENT docs, but now it is a far longer word, as they decided to get fancy.

I see him tomorrow for another follow-up, so I will ask him if there is anything he can do about my nose. Any suggestions ? Or dare I ask:nono:

[MSGT-R]

Well, if it looks like the Panda, there isn't much there to work with.. :icon_wink: