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.
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] [/p]