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[fred]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7214066.stm

[Lisa]

I used to put tissue in my ear as a kid ( dunno why) anyway, i refused to see a doc to remove it.. I can remember screaming the surgery down when they came near me.

Then when i was a teen a nice lump fell out on it's own.
My mother didn't believe thats what it was... 

[Cherry]

  You would think they would have looked in there when testing

[Taf]

"Don't put anything smaller than your elbow into your ear canal"

My bro used to fit Lego into his ears... "spy receivers" he called them

[Izzy]

WOW!

[Mojo]

Lucky!


I smell a lawsuit on it's way...

[Nanaof2]

"Don't put anything smaller than your elbow into your ear canal"

I want to watch you put your elbow into your ear canal - if you can you belong in a Circus! 

[AdmiralSirJohn]

"Don't put anything smaller than your elbow into your ear canal"

I want to watch you put your elbow into your ear canal - if you can you belong in a Circus! 

That line reminds me of George Carlin's routine about air travel.

"They tell you to put your seat back forward... Well, I don't bend that way!

If I could put my seat back forward, I'd be in porno movies!"

And I do have to confess that I went through a similar experience some years ago.  The earplugs I wore at an AC/DC concert compacted the wax to the point where it completely stopped up the canal.  It took a professional cleaning (i.e. trip to the doctor's office) to clean it out...

[Kat]

One of my aunts used to put peas up her nose.

Many a trip to the hospital... 

[Pam]

My SIL once got a bead stuck up her nose. Then she got a stamp stuck up it.

[Spite]

And I do have to confess that I went through a similar experience some years ago.  The earplugs I wore at an AC/DC concert

  Why?

[Anna]

I was thinking the same 
I once won tickets to a Westlife concert, Andy brought some marshmellow flumps and shoved one in each ear, then ate the rest !!

With this story I cannot understand why the doctors didn't spot it sooner, or why the kid (if his 'wax' was that bad) didn't go regularly to the hospital to have the wax 'hoovered' out

Emma always had blocked ears when she was tiny and we used to have to put olive oil in nightly, then go off to the hospital every few months where they would suck the wax out with a machine.  Emma was ever so good as it wasn't a nice experience for her. 
Luckily now her wax build up isn't so bad as they wanted to put grommets in if it continued, so I am glad she didn't have to go through that.

I just can't understand why they didn't see it or why the parents didn't sort the 'wax' problem sooner .. its only wax 

[Lisa]

I dunno, my tissue wasn't even mentioned in visits to the docs about my tonsils and stuff (where they shine that light in your ear). I don't know if it is because they knew it was there, because of my notes. Or just didn't see it. I think the latter option is the least likely as it was about the size of an orange pip when it came out.

[Anna]

They could have easily used tweezers to get your tissue out, or good ole syringing I prefer the new warm water machine to that huge syringe that can make you go deaf !!

[Lisa]

i was really small when i did it, and i kicked up such a fuss they (i assume) let it go and said it would fall out on his own. Which it did. about 13 years later

I am suprised at this story though, especially as they must have looked in his ears loads of times when investigating if he was deaf.