Are you kidding me??? My ear again??!!

The day started off with a phone call from my aunt saying my granny went back into the hospital. She has been fighting shingles. She has been home with Morphine patches but she can't seem to get control of the pain. So she had to go back in to the hospital again. Even though we know she really doesn't want to, and we don't WANT her to have to, we think it may be a good idea for her to go into a nursing home at least temporarily until she can get control of the pain. With the pain it is causing anxiety and depression, with the anxiety and depression it is causing high blood pressure, etc. She was even having a nurse come in to put her patch on, but it is not helping and she is not eating well, and becoming rather disoriented at times.

So I pray that #1 she is able to get the pain under control, and #2 she really doesn't need to be sent back home to just start this cycle all over again. The hospital gets her feeling well, then sends her home where she deteriorates.

So I can't believe this, but as most of my readers know, I have had a big problem with my right ear where it gets like "sore". Well it hasn't been PERFECT ever since my surgery to remove and ulcerated area by an ENT (which I still think the job was botched in some way,) but the top rim of my ear got a "scabby" area from the headphones they gave us for work. This was in a different location, but the headphones really hurt my ear. I spent almost $200 of my own money to buy my own, the kind we used to use at Dell which are very comfortable but the damage was already done. So it hasn't gotten too bad, but since the past week or so, the spot that was cut out has become inflamed! It is like crusting over and weeping, even when it wasn't "open" and with the crust... then when I would clean it with peroxide it would like attach to my ear. Like a sore is being created all over again.

I have become proactive and been cleaning it with peroxide daily for the past couple of days. Every time I clean it, it crusts back over. Well, tonight, I was rubbing the crusty stuff off with peroxide... went to go apply some triple antibiotic cream and there was blood running down my ear... sigh... FML ... for those of you who don't know what that stands for... GOOGLE IT!

I have an appointment on Thursday with the general surgeon at the wound clinic. I am going to get him to take a look at this. I definitely want a second opinion. This should NOT keep happening!