Drake,
good for you! I am waiting to see if the fluid will dry up eventually in my mastoids but it looks like that infection earlier this year took out about 50% of my hearing in my "good" ear. My bad one remains . . . bad! I am now having to ask folks to speak up a bit. If they stay fluid filled and the hearing does not come back I'll have to adjust. I'm really OK with my hearing just hated losing some more.