Here’s the turban they put on Todd’s wound after surgery. It was nothing but a bunch of gauze wadded up to protect the wound.
Todd had surgery for superior canal dehiscence syndrome on Thursday, January 8, 2009, and I cut off the turban on Sunday, January 11. The staples will remain in until Thursday.
This photograph was taken on Sunday, January 18, 2009, several days after Todd had his staples and stitches taken out. Pretty nice wound closure by Dr. Gerard Gianoli, eh?
This is what Todd’s head looks like after too much Percocet.
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Beth,
My favorite is the last one! Is that an armadillo?
Dor
Yes it is! I was so excited to see one alive–the only other one I’ve seen was roadkill.
My head never looked like an armadillo. And it’s healing up very nicely now. It’s been 3 weeks since the surgery, as of today.
Well, you never got a good look at your head right after surgery.
A doctor has recently suspected that I have SCD; what a relief, I thought I was going crazy! For the past four years, I have been told there is nothing wrong w/ me! Now it makes perfect sense, it is the sound waves that are making me dizzy, visually impared, etc.
Was your husbands surgery a complete success, or is it too early to tell?
JT,
so far it seems to have been very successful. He says his hearing is better in the right ear now, and the autophony is gone.
It’s too bad that doctors put it all back on the patients when they can’t figure out what’s wrong. If you want to talk to Todd about it, his blog is http://www.toddbradley.com. You can also try http://www.scds.org, which is a support forum.
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Beth, so now that a Lot of time has passed since the surgery, how is his hearing? How is the scar? I finally saw my third ENT and he was the only one that took me seriously when it came to this and after a CAT scan and a bunch of other tests I am going in for the same operation. Any info would really help ease my tress about the surgery…
Thanks in advance!
TP
Tom, his scar is hardly noticeable unless he cuts his hair really short. His hearing is fine; that was never an issue. He doesn’t have the autophony in his right ear anymore, though he does have some problems in his left ear. He’ll probably have to get the left ear done someday. If you want to read the story of Todd’s surgery in his words, try scdssupport.org. He should be on there under Todd Bradley, and you could talk with other people who have had the surgery.
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Hello, I know this section of your blog is almost three years old, but thanks for putting this together. I’m getting ready to have SCDS surgery myself, and I have been trying to find a picture of someone post-op online for a few weeks now. Thanks again for putting this together. I’m going to check out the SCDSsupport forums as well.