Miracles in Disguise!

Well, I haven't blogged in a while. Let me fill you in....Addyson has had some ear troubles..Took her to the ENT and he let us know that when her eardrum ruptured more than a year ago, it never healed...She still had a hole in her ear. Notice I said, "had!" He wanted to do tymphanoplasty as soon as possible. We scheduled it. That means "to cut muscle from above her ear, and graft it to her eardrum." The surgery took place on Monday, Dec. 15th. It was an hour and 40 minute procedure. When the doctor got into her ear, he found a cholesteatoma! BAD, Bad, Bad! A cholesteatoma is a tumor-like destructive cyst. Whatever it touches it destroys and can cause paralysis of the face, deafness, meningitis from brain infection and even death! The doctor had no idea it was in there because it wasn't in a normal place. Praise God we decided to have surgery! The cholesteatoma was on here middle ear bones, which usually means a transplant, but Addy's looked okay! We will be going back regularly to make sure they got it all. Because it was there, they had to remove more of her eardrum, but they patched it (graft) so she is fine! We will see how her hearing returns over time! We will have to do a "second-look procedure" in about 6-10 months. She will undergo anesthesia again, and if it(the cholesteatoma) is there, remove it! She is a trooper! She is at school right now...We'll see how it goes! Thanks for praying! God is a miracle working God! We didn't know danger was lurking , but God did and He took care of Addyson!