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Here I sit at the hospital with my son who has to have surgery for the 2nd time this month to correct cauliflower ear. I hate having to get to the hospital in the early morning for a procedure only to wait and wait and wait before they even come to get you to go to another area and wait some more. There has got to be a better way.

oh and to pour salt on the wound this surgery will likely end my sons wrestling season. as i said above this is the 2nd time this month he has had surgery to fix it in addition to having had his ear drained late last month. He was having a very good senior season and now it may prematurely end. What a [expletive] bummer

Sorry Mike. I know all too well that feeling (hospitals - not ear surgeries) and it sucks every single second of every single time you are there. Hope your son gets better and remembers baseball >> wrestling!

AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:Sorry Mike. I know all too well that feeling (hospitals - not ear surgeries) and it sucks every single second of every single time you are there. Hope your son gets better and remembers baseball >> wrestling!

Yeh he knows where he butters the bread and thats on the baseball field. He only wrestled this season to ensure that he was in top shape when the baseball season begins but still he is somewhat disappointed that it is possible he has wrestled his last bout. We are holding out hope that he can still be back on the mat by the city duals and the conference tournament which are at the end of january but if the doctor says there is any chance at all of this re-occurring we are going to shut it down. He doesn't want to jeopardize his senior season on the baseball field.

My best to your son, Mike. Is cauliflower ear as painful as it looks?

Sorry to hear that Mike. Sounds like your son is a tough kid though, he'll be okay.

What's cauliflower ear?

G. Keenan wrote:Sorry to hear that Mike. Sounds like your son is a tough kid though, he'll be okay.

What's cauliflower ear?

You see it a lot in wrestlers, boxers and MMA fighters whose ears get beat up .

Sorry to hear Mike, I've been there too many times. Two kids, not one of them managed to get out of HS without major surgery. First one lost his Sr. year of football due to an ACL tear, very tough on him as that was his favorite sport. Son #2 (x-country/track) developed a stress fracture in his hip last spring and missed his Jr year outdoor track season and effectively his Sr. year x-country season. He had another surgery to get the pins out recently and is going through the entire crutches/rehab deal again. It's been unreal. Part of my [expletive] 2011 is having my son going through two surgeries in one year on his hip and missing pretty much everything sports-wise.

I managed to get through 4 years of HS and never missing a game or match. 4 years of baseball/football, 2 of wrestling, and while i got plenty of dings and knicks and even a broken foot, nothing bad enough to where it caused me to even miss a game. I was pretty lucky looking back on it, although my luck ran out in college when I broke my wrist Fr. year baseball.

As one who wrestled in high school, I can attest that it puts you in incredible shape but the ears do take a beating.

Hope he is ready for baseball season and the senior year goes well (which means lots of great GRB updates from his proud papa!)

I know boxers and wrestlers get it, but what causes it? Is it just getting whacked on the ear and the losing blood flow or something?

Cauliflower ear (complication of hematoma auris, perichondrial hematoma, or traumatic auricular hematoma)[1] is a condition that occurs when the external portion of the ear suffers a blow, blood clot or other collection of fluid under the perichondrium. This separates the cartilage from the overlying perichondrium that supplies its nutrients, causing it to die and resulting in the formation of fibrous tissue in the overlying skin. As a result, the outer ear becomes permanently swollen and deformed, resembling a cauliflower.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauliflower_ear

this is what trevors ear looked like before surgery yesterday