# Real 'Crayon up the nose' type story.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 28, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-crayon-up-the-nose-type-story/435355 "2008-01-28T20:26:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-crayon-up-the-nose-type-story/435355/1 "2008-01-28T20:26:17Z")

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Boy believed to be deaf in one ear for nine years. Turned out he had a cotton bud stuck in it. Bit like Homer Simpson’s Crayon.

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south\_west/7214066.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7214066.stm)

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**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-crayon-up-the-nose-type-story/435355/2 "2008-01-28T21:02:46Z")

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[QUOTE=Lobsang]  
Boy believed to be deaf in one ear for nine years. Turned out he had a cotton bud stuck in it. Bit like Homer Simpson’s Crayon.

> **[BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | South West Wales | Deaf boy's cotton wool bud 'cure'](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/7214066.stm)**
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> A family believes a cotton wool bud, stuck in a boy's ear as a toddler, caused nine years of partial deafness.

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I could have done without the photo of the piece of cotton, though. Blech!

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-crayon-up-the-nose-type-story/435355/3 "2008-01-28T21:03:22Z")

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After looking at the pic of the kid holding up the chunk of gunky cotton, how the hell could doctors not see that?