Gauged ear infection?

I've been slowly gauging my ears for 6 years (because sometimes i would forget i even had them in and would stop going bigger) i wanted to get to 1 1/2" and i had just gotten them to 15/16 and all of a sudden the lobe around the plug got ginormous and hurt alot. the skin in the back started growing over the plug so i soaked it with warm salt water to loosen then skin and when i got it off the plug just popped out and showed that the inner rim of the lobe was basically rotting after two days of having it in. when i had put it in it didn't bleed or anything so i don't know why it got so infected. i was wondering because i had to take it out will it grow completely closed? the two sides of the lobe kind of scabbed together and there's no way to take it apart and i have to see a surgeon but i don't want to lose all that progress