For nine years, Jerome Bartens had to cope with the handicap of being half deaf.Ever since he was a toddler, the 11-year-old had been unable to hear anything on his right side and doctors said they were unable to help.
Then suddenly the reason for his problems became clear - when the end of a cotton bud popped out of his ear.
His family believe that he must have poked the bud in the ear at the age of two and the tip must have broken off the plastic stem.
The result was that he has always struggled at school, was constantly forced to turn up the volume of the television and music, and became used to everyone shouting at him.
But now he is waking up to a whole world of noise - while his father Carsten is demanding to know why medical experts failed to identify the problem for so long.
Mr Bartens, 45, told how Jerome was playing with his friends in a church hall when he heard a popping sound in his right ear.
He put his finger in and found the tip of a cotton wool bud.
"It was just incredible - his hearing returned to normal in an instant.
"He was cured as suddenly as he became deaf. I had always suspected Jerome had stuck something in his ear when he was little and that was causing the problem.
"But the doctors and hearing specialists said it was wax and he would probably grow out of it.
"I am amazed they didn't spot something as obvious as a cotton wool bud." (Daily Mail)
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