Child claims to have a pencil stuck in his ear. Doctors discover something much worse. Tommy, a wide-eyed, curly-haired eight-year-old, kept complaining of excruciating pain in his ear. Mom. I think I’ve got a pencil in here, he shyly confessed one evening, eyes downcast. His mother, distressed by this revelation, immediately took him to the emergency room, hoping for the best. When they arrived, a nurse was on hand to deal with Tommy and the urgency of the situation. Within minutes, a medical team surrounded the child.
Trying to figure out exactly what was going on. Tommy was terrified. He was holding his mother’s hand so tightly that his little fingers were white. I just thought I was having fun. I didn’t want this to happen, he cried. As the doctors tried to extract what they thought was a pencil, they stopped dead in their tracks. The room was dead, silent. The senior doctor’s face was pale. What he was seeing was far more serious than a simple pencil. While probing his ear, the doctor asked in a soft but firm voice. Tommy. How long have you had this pain? The boy’s answer, mixed with tears, was barely audible. But before anyone could realize the magnitude of the situation, the truth hit them all like a freight train. You’d never believe what they’d just discovered. Follow me and find out what happened next in Part two.
