lmjenk67
New Member
Yesterday while getting dressed for work, I had a couple of duckbill clips pinned to my twists to make them lay flat. While bending down to pick something up, the one on the right side turned perpendicular and jabbed inside of my ear. 
The force at which it entered my ear felt like a huge bug had flown inside my ear (in fact that's what I initially thought happened)! Needless to say, I let out a piercing scream and immediately started crying. 
After my visit to an ER, I found that I had punctured my eardrum. The good news is that it will eventually heal on its on in about 2 weeks and my hearing should return to normal. Right now the sound is muffled to nil in my right ear.
I never thought a duckbill clip could be so dangerous! From now on, I will be more careful with my placement of those types of clips.
I've attached a pic of the "offending party" for those of you who don't know what a duckbill clip looks like.
The force at which it entered my ear felt like a huge bug had flown inside my ear (in fact that's what I initially thought happened)! Needless to say, I let out a piercing scream and immediately started crying. After my visit to an ER, I found that I had punctured my eardrum. The good news is that it will eventually heal on its on in about 2 weeks and my hearing should return to normal. Right now the sound is muffled to nil in my right ear.
I never thought a duckbill clip could be so dangerous! From now on, I will be more careful with my placement of those types of clips.
I've attached a pic of the "offending party" for those of you who don't know what a duckbill clip looks like.
! It went really deep to have punctured your ear drum. this reminds me of when my son let his lil cousin stick a Q tip in his ear (she called herself cleaning his ear). He was crying and screaming. I felt so bad for him. Anyway, Glad you are okay. i was thinking about buying duckbill clips to hold in my rollers but i guess i will stick to the metal clips
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