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Posted by ouch
 - Feb 06 08 06:08
I once heard this story where a girl was cleaning her ear with a q-tip, and the phone rang. She picked up the phone and put it against her ear...  she left the q-tip hanging in. Puncured the eardrum.  
Posted by JJ
 - Feb 06 08 02:30
This story in The Province today, Cotton swabs in ears can be deadly, coroner warns :

   [A href="http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=065feacc-4332-4328-a00a-aa2f061ef392&k=75643"]http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=065feacc-4332-4328-a00a-aa2f061ef392&k=75643[/A]
Posted by Lil Me
 - Feb 04 08 09:12
HUH?  Speak up.  I can't hear you.  
Posted by P.C.
 - Feb 04 08 11:22
WOW....that's amazing.  It IS rather surprising a doctor wouldn't have picked up on that over all those years.
Posted by Lil Me
 - Feb 04 08 10:02
A boy who has been partially deaf for nine years was suddenly cured - when a cotton wool bud popped out of his ear.   Jerome Bartens was diagnosed as deaf in his right ear when he was just two and has struggled at school ever since. [/p]  But Jerome, now 11, was suddenly able to hear clearly again as he played with friends in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. [/p]  He said he heard a popping sound, then  found the tip of a cotton wool bud in his ear.
 [/p] Full Story:
 [a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7214066.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7214066.stm[/a]
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