On January 23rd, Kuso had surgery on his right ear. There was a "big hole" in his ear drum, likely from when he was young and swimming in the ocean so much. Last summer he get some water deep inside and it was bugging him. We went to get it checked and that's when the hole was found. After several months of using ear drops and just "waiting to see if it would heal itself" it was determined that surgery would be the best option.
The doctor took a graph from behind his right ear to create the patch that was put over his ear drum. The doctor cut the back of the ear close to the bottom open to have better access to the ear drum. The surgery took about 3 hours.
This was Kuso's first experience with being put under. It took him several hours to come out of it enough to come home. He woke up hungry which is quite unusual. A few hours later, he ate. Later that night, the combination of medication, pain, and food did not mix well.
Kuso was extremely dizzy for the entire next week. Regardless of whether he sat, stood, walked, slept, whatever, he was dizzy. Needless to say, it was a miserable week for both of us. The next week proved to be a little better. We met with the doctor on February 16th and the "go ahead" was given for him to return to work.
P.S. The doctor's name was Aoki...which apparently in Samoan means "death."
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that must've bee a bit frightening for Kuso. Not only having the doctors name mean death but having such a hard time with the meds. Yuk!
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