Life Events
Ashley Bittinger
Eardrum burst.
Ear surgery.
Surgery went wrong.
Freshmen year I experienced pain in my left ear again. I knew that something wasn't right so I went to the doctor. At the doctor they told me that a bone in my ear was deteriorating and that I needed to have surgery again. They also told me that the person who did my first surgery did a terrible job and they gave my parents a name of a specialist in Omaha. I went to the specialist and he looked in my ear and saw that the bone by my eardrum was deteriorating. He told me that I would need to have surgery again and that it would be my last one. I then had surgery on it and after my surgery I was almost completely deaf in my left ear. For a whole year I could barely hear anything from my left ear and this impacted my life majorly because I felt sad and I felt like my ear would never be normal again.
Surgery went right.
Sophomore year then came around and my ear specialist in Omaha told me that I would need surgery again on my ear. He told me that he knew the problem and that this was going to be my last surgery ever and that he was 100% sure that he could fix it. He told me that since the bone was deteriorating, he needed to put a prosthetic bone in my ear. I then had the surgery and they took out the packing in my ear after the surgery and I could hear out of my ear. This extremely impacted my life because I now could finally hear and I was done with surgery for the rest of my life.
Volleyball.
This year for volleyball the seniors had a rough time with our coach. Our coach told the freshmen that we didn't like them and that we were mean girls. Our coach then stopped coaching us and she acted like she didn't care about us anymore. All of us seniors then stepped up and we talked it out together. We became closer as a team and also as friends. This impacted my life in a big way because I learned that when people knock you down you have to stand back up and keep trying.
My mom.
During November my mom went to the doctor and they told her that they might have found something cancerous. I immediately got scared and I thought the worst. I became sad and I also became very close to my mom during this time because I didn't know how much time I would have left with her just in case she did have cancer. She then went to the doctor again and her test results came back negative. My mom texted me that day saying that she didn't have cancer and I was extremely happy. This impacted my life because I realized how short life is and that you can't take any day for granted because you never know when your last day might be.