You got a shot in the what???

Called my ENT Monday and went to see him yesterday. To make a long story short, we went with the steroid injection into my ear. He went through the tube that is already there. It was not a fun experience but I've been through a lot worse. You have to lay back with your head tilted even further back for about 30 minutes. The medicine stings your inner ear and runs down your throat. They gave me peppermints to suck on during the procedure and that helped. The trick was not to choke on the mint while remaining still in a kind of upside down position. I don't know if it will work or not. I'm at home from work today just to give me time to regroup myself. If I had to base my decision on right now, I would say it didn't work which truly bums me out. The next step is surgery. However, he did say to give it a few days to know for sure. Now it's a waiting game. I'll go back to work tomorrow and Friday. That'll be the true test. If there's no improvement there, then I can pretty much say the injections did not work. My hopes right now lie solely within this shot and this other medicine I started over two weeks ago. It takes about six weeks to work, if it's going to, which means by Thanksgiving I should know if I have to have surgery or not. The surgery is an outpatient procedure during which he will go in and "revise" the previous inner ear shunt I had placed back in 1998. It is for sure covered in scar tissue by now. The possibility is that by clearing it out, I can get back to near "normal." I'm trying to stay positive and make myself believe that this is not coming from my good ear. As I mentioned in my last post, if this is in my good ear, I really don't think I can handle it. Keeping my fingers crossed that this shot will work and thinking now is a good time for a nap. I've been awake for a whole hour and a half. Whew...better rest. I'll keep my progress posted on here for my own sake so that I won't forget and maybe I can help someone else with this cursed disease.