What a pain in the... Ear?
A BRISBANE mum has suffered hearing loss after she was speared in the ear by a rogue garfish.
Julie Fison, 46, was swimming chest-deep at Port Douglas in September when the garfish leapt up and plunged a 2.5cm barb into her eardrum.
Mrs Fison, a children's adventure book writer, is still recovering from surgery.
"It was excruciating - it hit me hard enough in the head to make me collapse and bleed out of my ear," the mother of two said.
She was left with facial palsy - unable to smile or blink on one side of her face - for more than a month after the barb perforated the eardrum and penetrated a facial nerve near her brain.
It took three hours of surgery at Cairns Base Hospital to remove the barb and she has since made numerous trips to ear specialists, physio sessions, an ophthamologist and now a speech therapist - and yet she still suffers hearing loss in her left ear.
Jorie
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omg that poor woman.. and to
omg that poor woman.. and to think that a gardie caused it.. unbelievable
Red Dog
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Better start culling those
Better start culling those killer garfish...
Seafarer 5.8
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That would be a fluke to be
That would be a fluke to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Do hope that she is going well and hope that the Doctors can get on top of it.
what a shame.
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