'I thought I was going deaf for 20 years - then doctors found something weird in my ear'

Tamara Ceaikovski

A woman who thought she was going deaf for the last 20 years was shocked when surgeons finally pulled out a piece of Lego that had been trapped in her ear. The unnamed patient, from Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo Oblast, southern Russia , put the two-centimetre piece in her ear while playing as a child, but never told her parents and quickly forgot all about it. More than two decades on, her ears were examined by specialists as her hearing deteriorated. Regional health minister Dmitry Beglov revealed