Hear today, gone tomorrow?

It's now seven days since surgery and I seem to be recovering well.

• For the first few days, my balance was off especially when I got up at night.  Now, it seems to be fairly normal with just an occasional bout of dizziness.
• I've finished taking the course of antibiotics.  I think they make me a bit drowsy.  They don't seem to have caused any stomach trouble which is a possible side-effect.  The hardest thing about them was figuring out how to work the 'child proof' top on the container!
• Very little taste disturbance or tongue numbness.  Not zero but much less than with the first ear operation.  The top of my outer ear is still quite numb.  I assume it can't feel cold either so I'll have to be careful not to let it freeze when I go outside.
• There's still a feeling of fullness in the ear.  It's something like when one's ear fills with water while swimming.  I can hear myself hum or my teeth banging together but I can't hear anything from outside the ear.

Did I just say I can hear myself?!  That is rather strange.  My understanding is that I would lose all normal hearing with the operation.  Not that there was much to lose in the first place.

  

So perhaps I will end up with a small amount of residual hearing? On Wednesday Jan 22nd, I return to Sunnybrook to have the staples removed so I will ask the surgeon about this.