Cholesteatoma. What a strange name. It sounds like something in your blood, but it is actually what was growing in Natalie's ears. Small noncancerous, but destructive tumors that can grow in either side of the ear drum. Weird. She had one of these before when she went in for her first repair surgery in 2004. That one was growing near those tiny bones behind her eardrum and would have grown and crushed the bones, making her completely deaf in her right ear, not to mention balance problems. Thank goodness they caught it.
So it looks like Natalie will get to keep visiting the ear doctor and audiologist in case there are recurrences.
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Glad she has recovered. Hope she doesn't have a repeat.
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