for anybody wondering <| sep |> My first mastoidectomy was fine , and only took me a week before I was back in commission . I was out of the hospital in a few hours that time . The second time was rough my surgeon nicked my dura mater and started a CSF leak , freaked because he didn ' t know what to do , and shipped me over to another hospital to have it completed the next day , which is when I got my first implant . It took me nearly a week in the hospital and two more of bedrest before I was functional . Unfortunately that only lasted a few months until I managed to expel it through my eardrum ouch , so my last surgery wasn ' t just a tympanoplastyTORP placement , it was also reconstructive so I couldn ' t have that completed in office . I was back at fully lifting I have a very physical job at work in about a week and a half . This time around it seems to be working like a charm , and I ' m really thankful that such a simple little device can do so much . The tinnitus will last me a lifetime , however .