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. 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.