Post-op with Dr. Reinisch

February 10, 2014

Post-op for the 12/23/13 surgery

We are so lucky that Dr. Reinisch is up in the Bay Area once a month to do a CAM surgery with Dr. Roberson.  We get to see him often so he can check things out in person.  He is happy with the way the ear is healing and all but one of the sutures is out.  The one that is left is stubborn.  It's not on the ear itself, but on the skin more at the back of the ear/neck.  I will continue to work on getting it out.  I spoke with him about how the right ear is still more projected than the left and he told me that he didn't bring it in all the way to match the left one because he thought that as Sam gets older she may want to put hair behind her ear.  If there isn't a little projection, so most likely couldn't do this.  I hadn't even thought about this...the man seriously thinks of everything!  Her left ear is pretty flat to the head now, but we can address that later if we decide to.  She wore the ear mold on the left side for 5 months, so for some reason it "settled" more after that.  I will just encourage Sam to sleep more on the right side now and hopefully it will "settle" in a little more over time.  Overall, we are really happy! 

Right ear comparasion - this ear is 6 months old, with a revision done on 12/23/13

Front view

Back of ear - still healing from surgery on 12/23/13

This view Dr. Reinisch likes to see for alignment.  You can see that the right ear is still more projected than the left. With her hair down, you can't even notice.