Trent's ear

Doesn't that look interesting? It's a wax candle funnel thing that you stick into your ear and then light the end. The purpose you ask? The heat is supposed to draw out the ear wax... but it didn't really work. He had surgery on his right ear, a couple months after we were married, because he had cholesteatoma.

So he already had hearing loss in that ear since they had to also replace the 3 ear bones with prosthetic bones. Then, about a month ago, he started to lose hearing in his left ear. Its been a rough month for him and for me because I get stick of repeating myself because he can't hear me. I didn't have the patience for it I guess.

We were talking with his mom about it and she has had ear problems herself so she recommended that he go down and see her ear doctor. He got right in the same day and the doctor realized that the hearing loss was from ear wax blockage. He cleaned all the wax out of both of his ears and found years and years of build up in there. Now he can hear.

His right ear, that he had surgery on 9 years ago, was checked out as well because Trent hasn't been back to get it checked out since his follow up visit after his surgery. They did a CT scan and Trent will go back in May to get the results and see if more damage has been done and if the cholesteatoma has caused more damage.