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To: Edwarda who wrote (169)	12/22/1999 5:06:00 PM
From: George S. Montgomery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206

I could say "You guys have no idea..." But I would probably be more on target if I said "You guys really know..." So, I will: You guys, Ed-A, penni, and Cobalt (is that the same as Cobe?), really know how words of concern, thought, and affection as you have just expressed can spike right through - and melt the heart of hapless hermit! As briefly as possible: I had a double myringotomy two years ago. This puts little holes in the eardrums, and then puts little tubes in these holes - so anything nasty in the inner or middle ear can drain out, and be gone for ever. Well, I had a crappy double myringotomy. The holes didn't close, leaving my eardrums without the functional membranes they use to vibrate into sound. The tympanoplasty snips off a bit of lobe, a trivial step really. Then it applies this 'fat patch' over the holes in the drums. My right ear had this done several months back, with no anaesthesia. I tensed and twisted and jerked as if I were in that famed Florida electric chair. The results, though, allowed sound to be produced, and a pretty fair ability to talk on the phone and all. Today, with a five-person staff and intevenous sedation, I had the other ear fat patched. This used to be the good ear. I must return for a check-up Friday. And I am ultimately, totally, enthusiastically optimistic about the outcome. (Now wasn't that a jem of a bit of information to get sloshed on your plates!) More. On returning here a short while ago, after more than four hours with the otiolar-or-whatever folk, I pulled out the piece of cotton that was stuck in the ear, and produced a considerable immediate seepage of blood and a stinging sensation. So I greased up a cotton ball of my own, put it back in, and offered thanks to the forests and fawns that Friday I will be checked over again. Also have been given a massive supply of antibiotics. It is not possible, is it, that I am the only person in the world who feels at times sheerly STUPID! This is an intrusive, unnecessary elaboraton on the subject. But, all you guys read real fast - yes? Thank you again, ever so deeply, for your posts!!! Melted in the warmth of the moment you have given me, geo