mine healed in two weeks then rejected in 6 months, talk about gutted. The pain I went through for the damn thing was unbelievable. My piercer said he'd never seen cauliflower ear so bad (my ear was puffed out so much there was no indent around the top of my ear, completely round) I even had it changed about a month in to a labret stud to keep it light, to no avail Minimal pain after the hellish 2 weeks, then it got really loose and I took it out just before it would have fallen apart. And the structure of that bit of the ear has collapsed a little too. (think that's part of the course though)
How are you finding your stretches? I just recently went up to 8mm (0g) in one of my ears and it was so unbelievably easy compared to every previous stretch! I'm tempted to go further but I think I'm at the point of no return now! (given that its stretching a bit too easily now)