My Miracle In 1974 I went to my doctor for a checkup. I felt fine but just wanted to be sure. He looked in my left ear and asked if it hurt. I said it did not. He kept looking. Then he said it looked infected and wrote a script for antibiotics and said come back in two weeks. I came back and he kept looking in the ear, asking me about pain. I said I was fine. He insisted I see an ENT. I went to the ENT and he said the same things. He put me on a stronger antibiotics. I finished them and went back. The ear still didnt look right. He said he thought it might be a mastoid or something more serious, and scheduled me for exploratory surgery. I was 23 but he insisted on calling my parents. Everyone was worried except me. After surgery the doc came in my room and said that I was born without a bone in my ear, and he placed a piece of teflon where the bone should have been. When I got out of the hospital, he kept sending me for x-rays on the left side if my neck. I had no idea why. Remember, this was 1974 before MRIs and CT scans. Fast forward to 1985: I got a head ache that incapacitated me. I cant even describe the pain. It was all on the left side behind my ear. I went to another ENT and he ordered a CT scan of my ear and neck. He called me in and told me that I had a glomus tumor in my ear close to my brain. He said it had to come out. He said there was a chance it was cancerous. The night before my surgery I was falling asleep in the hospital. A nurse woke me up (it was midnight) and it was the doctor on the phone. He said that something woke him up, and he could not operate without further tests. He ordered an arteriogram. After the procedure he came in and sat on my bed. He said Thank God that I didnt operate, because I probably would have killed you. What we thought was a glomus tumor was actually your carotid artery in the wrong place.” He told me that because I was born without a bone in my inner ear, the carotid artery grew right through the inner ear. He said that it was extremely rare (only around 40 cases in medical history) and asked if the hospital could take images of it. I told him about the exploratory surgery I had in 1974. He wanted to see the operative report. I didnt have that. He asked me to call that doctors office to get the report. I called them and the nurse said they didnt have it. Then my doctor told me to say my attorney would be calling. All of a sudden they had the report on microfiche.They mailed it to me. I brought it to the doc. By that time the initial head pain had gotten better. When the doctor read the operative report he said Girl, you are a walking miracle! You should have stroked or died on that table! The operative report said: The middle ear was explored. A large mass was seen bulging from the middle of the Hypotympanum. The mucosa was removed from the surface of it and appeared to be the wall of a large vein, probably the jugular bulb although it was not in the usual position, the jugular bulb being too far anterior. The mass was then aspirated and was full of blood. It bled profusely and stopped with pressure and a little gelfoam over the sight of the puncture. It was thought to be a vascular anomaly, probably the jugular bulb, and nothing further was done. A Teflon sheet was placed over the mass between the handle of the malleus and the mass to prevent reoccurrence and of adhesions. That doctor had not been honest with me. He didnt tell me that he had punctured what he thought was a vein. But the Lord kept me safe in the exploratory surgery, and then He woke the new doctor up so he wouldnt operate! This was in 1974 and I was not born again until 1983!! An MRA was ordered and they found that the carotid artery has a kink (hairpin turn) in it which accounted for small seizures I was having from not getting enough oxygen to my brain. They think that the first doctor caused the kink when he was repairing the puncture. Even today doctors look in my left ear and can see the artery. GOD IS SO GOOD!!!!
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 02:40:22 +0000
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