Kid WAS deaf for NINE years, regains hearing after cotton bud pops out of his ear

Similar issue for a neighbor. Injured on the job, recovery went slowly but steadily. Towards the end of the recovery, he began losing his balance, which was unrelated to his injury. Lost his fight for workers compensation since it was unrelated. A dozen months go by, not driving an auto, not working, home-bound etc. It turns out he had a large wax deposit that was pressing against his eardrum, causing moderate pressure on the balance canals (these are his GP’s words, as related to me). He had no less than 3 complete evaluations by the workers compensation recommended physicians… they clearly do not know what to look for when they check your ears.

What the hell? The DOCTORS couldn;t help the kid? What, did they look in the wrong ear? Could they not find their little ear flashlight the day the kid came in.
Fire your dovtor. Unacceoptable.

“Kid was deaf for nine years” - you are an idiot.
He wasn’t deaf. Do you know what being deaf is?
Nope. “Kid dead for nine years” is just as accurate. You are a talentless hack.
Get off the internet. Moron.

Silencer said- “‘Kid was deaf for nine years’ - you are an idiot.
He wasn’t deaf. Do you know what being deaf is? Nope. ‘Kid dead for nine years’ is just as accurate. You are a talentless hack.
Get off the internet. Moron.”

So someone fails to make the distinction between “deaf” and “partially deaf” and that makes them a talentless hack? I think the one who needs to get off the internet is you. And I wouldn’t recommend having children either, if you fly completely off the handle for no reason at all like that.

-Your children “I’m starving! can we stop to eat somewhere?”

-You “You are not starving you miserable shit! Children in Africa are starving, you’re only hungry! Let’s wait a few days and then you’ll see what starving is! You might as well have said ‘I’m Dead’”

Something similar happened to me very recently. I thought I’d gone blind, but then I realised I was just trying to read the comments on this page!

You’re right. I am such a complete loser. I apologize and swear I will not attempt to reproduce for the sake of humanity. I know my attitude has changed but I just had something fall out of my butt thats been lodged there for 9 years and it caused mood swings but I am fine now.

I’m dead in one ear.

I agree with silencer, this blog is stupid as hell. go back into your hole screwballz.

Jesus, shut up. If you don’t like the blog, don’t read it. I don’t see you ringing up the newspapers and calling them “stupid as hell” and “talentless hacks”, because as far as I’m aware, they also used the term “deaf for nine years”.

I do question newspapers as”“stupid as hell” and “talentless hacks”, though!

Nine years seems a pretty long time I must say.

It reminds me of that guy who kept complaining of headaches until after many years he finally went to the doctor. The doctor didn’t find anything so he went to the hospital, and after an X-ray the man was found to have a bullet in his head!

to the “talentless hack” person, the definition of deaf is “lacking the power of hearing or having impaired hearing”, so the author was technically right. I don’t get why the author has to bash the UK though…

I would eat that earbud for $10

I would lick it for $5

you are all a bunch of nazzis moores rule satisfied you should quit life if you flame for no reason good night

If you don’t get why the UK bashing - well, in most countries, the doctors actually LOOK in your ears, especially if you are a kid, and ESPECIALLY if you are complaining about hearing problems.

Guess that’s the kind of service we can expect with Hilary-care soon.

i think its a bit of an over generalisation to assume that all UK doctors are incapable of looking in someones ear. mistakes happen kids. I am sure there are just as many incompetant doctors in the US. the difference is they live in fear of being sued for all theyre worth. at least brits can forgive each other instead of bankrupting them.

Dunno why you guys act like faggles sometimes. Just fuckin’ grow up and be reasonable, its a goddamned blog.

Lulz

That really sucks fer him. but somehow it doesn’t surprise me. If it were here in the states, the docs just give you antibiotics.

I have not said anything yet, pointblankzero.

Shut up son before you get crucified again

I have a friend who went through roughly the same thing. The differences were the blockage was a pea, she went to three doctors (the third found it), and it only took a little over one year to find it… oh, and it was in the US. It happened about 20 years ago though, not that that makes it excusable.

A similar thing happened to my grandmother about 10 years ago. She went to the doctor and complained about her hearing, and they said they couldn’t find anything but that it’s probably wax and her hearing would probably return. 6 months later, she went in again, and this time they told her that she was basically losing her hearing due to her age. She went to a different doctor who found that it was indeed wax in her ear that had hardened, so he removed it and her hearing returned to normal.

Apparently, this type of thing isn’t as rare as one might think. I’m still amazed that a doctor can look in your ear and not see something like that. Maybe when they look in your ear, it’s hard to see something large because they’re tools are magnifiers (and the object will probably be covered with wax so it will look fairly natural)… that’s about the only reason I can think of that could prevent a doctor from seeing something so large, but that’s a guess since I don’t know much about that field of medicine.

i thought this was interesting. and i find the people saying it was stupid for the doctors not to be able to find the thing retarded, being stupid in themselves. when a doctor looks in the ear, they look for.. guess what, ear wax, and maybe something that looks like an infection… and as Random said, the cottun bud wont be easily seen, they arent going to look in and see a cottun bud, they will see what looks like wax build up. they wont be expecting something like that.. just like if you shove a potato up deep into a car’s exhaust pipe, it will take a couple of weeks before the mechanic will find it, or just give up and say you need new exhaust. it will take him a long time because he isnt expecting to look for it… so in the future.. use commen sence before you flame about something… oh wait… its the internet, people who flame over little things like this dont have commen sence.

I’ll pee in your friends ear in a second!!lol

I had a similar problem with doctors in my childhood. My parents took me to doctor after doctor trying to find out why I had problems relating to my peers, struggled in class despite being of higher-than-average intelligence, and sometimes seemed to have “abscences” where I was not aware of the world around me. It was not until I was 18 that a doctor finally ordered a CAT scan and identified the symptoms of temporal-lobe epilepsy. He put me on anticonvulsant medication - and the problems stopped.

However, I don’t blame the doctors. Diagnosing medical issues is highly problematic when you consider that many diseases/syndromes manifest differently in different people. It’s a testament to the skill of modern doctors that they do get it right as often as they do. While I know personally very well that misdiagnosis can create years of trauma for a patient, we should remember that doctors aren’t gods and medical science (as opposed to witchdoctoring, exorcism etc!) is still in its infancy. There are limits to our knowledge and we have to operate within those limits while studying and working to expand them. Give our doctors a break. They’re doing the best they can.

hey “no one” a good doctor looks for the expected AND the enexpected it he cannot find the expected. Your comment was retarded. A good doctor would have found it. Unless you consider a good doctor who just gives up when confronted with something out of the ordinary. When something is not “cured” you explore other options and start to investigate. So in response, the doctor should have found it upon further review. Dumbass

me…thank god “no one” isn’t a doctor. “I can’t find the obvious so I give up”. lol

First two sentences start with “I mean” I didn’t even bother reading beyond that point, because you apparently can’t write worth shit.

I’ve actually been half deaf since I was 8, but its because a doctor punctured my ear drums when I was little. Its caused a lot of damage, and I can never get any water in my ears. All because I had earaches.

Similar situation. My daughter developed an ear infection. Something large was in there–perhaps a tick we thought. Doctor examined, said it was wax, treated with antibiotics and ear cleaners. Month later still there. Another doctor had same conclusion. In frustration I bought some saline solution and flushed it out. It was a seed. Not going back to either doctor. Daughter hears much better now.

I had some wax pressing against my ear drum for about 10 months before they finally syringed it out… curing me in seconds. It was agonising before that - even a slight tap on the other side of my head sent waves of pain. It can really affect your sense of balance.

When I was in the mnilitary, I had a problem where my foot felt like it had a railroad spike in it everytime I stepped down. Military doctors thought my arches were falling, even though it was only one foot and it wasn’t going away. 3 years went by before they medically discharged me, whereas I went to a civilian hospital to which the military had previously denied me. The civilian hospital did a simple MRI and found that my arches weren’t falling, but the nerve had bunched up between the bones and was grinding when I stepped building up large amounts of scarring tissue. Very obvious for any MRI which the military refused to do even after I requested one. The cilivian hospital put a shot into my foot to semi deaden the nerve then moved my foot around to dislodge it and the healing process began. It was either semi deaden the nerve, or remove it fully. Removing it fully would have left my foot with no feeling ever again. I chose to keep feeling and the civilian doctor made me walk again albeit with slight pain, but no so severe as a railroad spike anymore. That’s military doctors for you.

Wow, it doesn’t take much to get some people chomping at the bit does it!