Jamie Huskisson Nottingham UK PHP, Magento, Wordpress freelance developer

Well not quite shot in the side of the face, but pretty close…

As I said in a previous post – I went to the Queens Medical Center on Tuesday for an operation, which was on my ear. I actually had Mastoid Surgery to “explore” the area and a lovely (what I thought was little) Cholesteatoma. For those of you not bothering to click the link – a Cholesteatoma is a “disease” or presence in the ear that causes chronic ear infections, erodes bones, removes hearing (gradually) and can eventually go onto humping the brain slowly into submission.

I don’t know the *full* details of my operation and how it went as the doctors/surgeons decided it was best to tell me what happened whilst I was under aesthetic and I could barely keep my eyes open – so I didn’t take any of it in. Most of what I know is what I remember from glimpses of consciousness and what I’ve heard from my girlfriend Vicky who was with me at the time. But apparently the Cholesteatoma grew into the bones behind my ear, and one or two had to be removed.

Now – what was this I said about a shot in the face? Well trust me, that’s how it feels… specially if you make the mistake of turning over in your sleep and leaning on it. After the first night of bleeding and changing 10 pieces of cotton wool in 12 hours, filling my pillow with blood and three nights of no sleep I went to my local doctor and got some stronger medication – and boy did it work!

Who would have thought the difference between 400mg and 600mg would help me sleep so much? Went to bed at 12am and got up at 10am – best night sleep I’ve had in ages. So whilst I’m in this great mood of mine today I thought I’d post and update you people (what – five people still read this blog? ten? ok… eleven) on what is happening.

Anyways, with loss of hearing in my left ear, and loss of taste in the left side of my mouth (did anyone guess it was my left ear yet?) all should be fine soon. My hearing will come back, stitches will be removed, my taste will come back and chocolate will taste like chocolate once again…

Now I’ve got two weeks off work/college (although I doubt I’ll stay away from work for much longer) and I’m bored like a monkey with no bananas or Gary Glitter with no Thai wife’s..

Lots of really random things from here on:

• Apparently Dinosaurs had appetite for grass, of course they did – who else would have mown the lawn?
• The last three years in the premiership against Newcastle: 5-0, 4-0 and today 3-0. Maybe Newcastle will eventually get a draw against us 3 years from now :)
• Newsvine is coming, sounds like we’ve finally got people with a passion for giving us the news, instead of giving us with what we see on our TVs
• Anyone else find Google Analytics a bit slow? One update a day… I’ll get used to it
• And all our base belong to Google
• Go out, smash an iPod, record a crappy video and then go join me and Stu in complaining about its absolute sh*ttyness
• Lynda.com, possibly the best video tutorials on the net, but they never update… ever
• Want to learn Perl?
• Are you as addicted to Sodukus as I am?
• Noticed the little amount of Twodded tutorials too? Don’t worry there has been words said… and it’ll change – even if I have to sacrifice Twodded’s next version development time to write tutorials
• There’s something reaaaaal big happening for my end of year project – don’t worry, you’ll want to use it ;)