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British Man Having Hearing Problem Detects Earbud Stuck In One Of His Ear For 5 Years

An engineer with the The Royal Navy Wallace Lee, from Weymouth in Dorset believes that the object got stuck during a plane journey.

In a bizarre incident, an elderly British man after partially losing his hearing ability in one of his ears detected an earbud stuck in it for five years. Wallace Lee, from Weymouth in Dorset, thought that the problem was due to a career working in the noisy aviation industry.

After the problem magnified, Lee finally bought a home endoscope kit that helped him detect a small white object stuck in his ear, reported BBC news.

He soon visited an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) surgeon and got the broken piece of the earbud removed.

An engineer with the The Royal Navy Lee believes that the object got stuck during a plane journey.

"Five years ago, when I was visiting my family in Australia, I bought these little earplugs that you can put different attachments in, depending on the noise you want to phase out on an aircraft. One of these little attachments had lodged in there and it had been in there ever since." he said as reported by BBC.

Lee had visited a few doctors after developing the problem but they missed the buried bud because of a buildup of earwax. 

On detecting the object Wallace decided to visit an ear, nose, and throat surgeon, who was able to remove it and his hearing was restored.

"Instantly I could hear everything in the room. The fog that was in my head for all those years went and left - and I could hear perfectly well."

"It was just such a relief... it's like hearing correctly for the first time all over again," said Lee to BBC after the surgery.

Not even once in five years the veteran engineer got an idea that the problem was because of the earbud stuck in his ear.

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