A story without Words
Everyday 99% of the medical doctors around the world are doing the very best they know how to help relieve pain and suffering. I am so thankful that this physician had the skills to help this little girl.
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At the hospital R&D center I used to work ta they were working on both “cybernetic” ear replacements aswell as working on growing the bones for the inner-ear, maybe before she is an adult this technology will have matured enough to provide her a new and fully functional ear.
Somebody got your nose! Somebody got your nose! Somebody got your ear! Holy Crap!
Yeah! You are right! It is the wonder one doctor can do and save one’s life. Everyone can just think from their core of heart. This little girl when come to the age to know the good and bad things from this world. One day she could know that doctor gave her second life. Then I think, there is no such big thing and nobody compare to it with wealth.
Thanks to doctors who gave her second life…
…She’s missing an ear. She got a new fake ear. That is not a second life.
*jealous* two perfectly symmetrical balanced ears.. if only all women could be so lucky.. :P
You’re all missing the point of this… Imagine how much she would be made of… How depressing her life would have been… Kids are cruel in case you don’t remember.
She looks like a twin of her dad in the second last one!
Hope it was donated…Probably charged a few grand for a plastic/latex ear, and some glue. Doctors gouging…
Gouging? You want to put a price on this? I have nothing but respect for the doctor who created this for her.
I think this is the ex-CIA guy who helped the agents with disguises. After he retired, he started doing this “prosthesis” work for disfigured people
it is wonderful that there are great people out there who are willing to help.
Is this really what there is to offer? How sad, I expected more.
Every day I get to work for the Let Them Hear Foundation – an organization that provides the gift of hearing to children such as the one in this story. The providers working to this end have my deep respect and gratitude.
i think her mom ate the other one.
What happens when she keeps growing every year? That ear will get smaller and smaller looking!
the story without words…sure had a lot of words
I grew up with a girl that had had this procedure done, when she was little. As she grew older, after a few years of growing, the ear came off some how. She wore her hair down most of the time through high school. I dated her for a couple months. But a softball game would come and she would pull her hair back and pitch nothing but fast ball strikes. Seen her strike out whole teams!
in fact for all those concerned this is not the only way of giving ear to a person with anotia( that is the scientific terminology for absence of external ear. Her internal ear is perfectly fine and functioning as far as i think. When i was in medical school, in Nepal(which is quite a backward country when it comes to medical breakthroughs), one of my assoc professor of plastic surgery used to make ear from cartilage graft taken from the rib of the patient, which he used to implant in place and then expand the overlying skin over months with baloon till some redundant skin is grown, then cover the cartilage graft with skin. The ear would be much better- it would be natural, it will grow in size, it will not come out either. So i donno it must have been the choice of the parents over here to only use prosthesis for the time being. Else you would be amazed at what plastic surgeons with a little bit of imagination can do. Even in a country like Nepal.( with due respect to Dr Ishwor Lohani, the surgeon i am referring to).
You know the only reason that kid needs a fake ear is because she’s scared of being picked on at school.
Come on people. It’s a fake ear. Why not either do the plastic surgery, or just have your hair cover it?
If you want to see something really impressive, look up the Operation Smile charity.
Naysayers, please saw your ears off or kindly shut your mouths.
Another victim of Mike Tyson…
How did he take an impression and then create the mirror image of the right ear to glue on the left? Very curious.
People that say children are cruel were losers that got picked on.
Friends, Romans, countrymen; lend me your ear
where’s her damn earhole???
I thought he’d cut off her ear and put it into a lasagne at first.
I’m guessing you’re probably all Yankee’s. No compassion and your jokes aren’t funny. Lol.
That’s a really sweet story . The last photo says it all- Thankyou!
WTF does being from the north have to do with anything? Are you, perhaps, suggesting that we southerners (yes, I’m one too) are some how superior to our fellow American’s up there in the north because of ear humor? That tasteless southern humor is somehow benign due to our geographical location in the United States? Where is this REAL America? We need to fetter these dissenting, unpatriotic, non-ear sympathizers out of this God fearing country! Fake eared Yankees, Unite! The Confederates are coming!
That is some funny stuff.. some of you people are cold blooded… funny stuff
What’s really amazing is how cynical and bitter some of the comments above are about doctors making so much money and so on. LOOK AT THE PICTURES! You can’t put a price on the difference that man has made to that girl’s life. It’s not just a ‘fake ear’, it means fitting in and not being self conscious that she’s different when she looks in the mirror in the morning. I think some of you here just don’t understand children. Hell, some of you don’t even seem to understand people.
She got ear raped I bet.
lol it has a sex offender search right under the pic where the old man is touching the little girl
I have microtia – left side, skin tag just like that little girl. I also had a prosthesis created for me. However, I have to say that it was a pain to apply the glue every day to put it on. It was noxious-smelling and disturbed my classmates at the time. I tried all kinds of medical adhesive – more than once it fell off during class.
Honestly, it’s only marginally better than nothing, and at a cost of about $2500 to make, it may not be worth it just to be able to have short hair.
People say the darnest things. I am just thrilled to know that something could be done to bring a smile to the little girls face. She is beautiful and TO GOD BE THE GLORY.
Nice job, curious what will happen as her other ear grows as she grows. she may have to get this done every couple of yrs until she stops growing.
My dear daughter in law was born with only one ear — the other did not even have an internal “ear”. She is a beautiful dear person, with a beautiful voice, musically gifted, and brilliant. When she was a little girl, doctors tried to fashion a small ear from the surrounded skin and tissue. This way, she has enough of an “ear” to support eyeglasses.
The emotional issues of self-consciousness, however, have affected her whole life, because her mother — a deeply devout fundamentalist Christian — felt that “God” had caused the deformity as some sort of punishment for her (the Mother’s) imaginary sins (she’s a totally normal, average human being, not a murderer or anything, but because of her religion she believes she’s a “sinner”). She always felt ashamed of her daughter’s deformity, and that has caused a deep emotional scar in this dear young lady.
It’s great that medical science can and will do what the Christian’s imaginary “God” either can’t or won’t. And “Why won’t God heal amputees?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3VAEYEG53w
To all those with your nasty comments, rude jokes and other rotten things to say all I have to say is i hope your ears, noses and eyes rot off and this doc can’t find a way to fix them up. :p
I’m not going to cry. I’m not going to cry.
Should have aborted that shit.
To anyone here thinks “god” deserves the credit for this
You need to go fuck yourself.
“god” didnt do SHIT.
The Doctor helped her, not some retarded imaginary sky daddy
This brought tears to my eyes. I became legally deaf after age 65. Have less that 4% hearing. It is truly wonderful that something can be done for the young ones using fantastic technology of this age! Bless you for this article.
Would you email me the info about this doctor. My son has microtia as well on the right of his ear. I am interested to see this doctor.
Hey, i just happen to stumble across this post and I think this is going to help the child a lot. The doctor is great and it looks like real one to me. Just wonder how long before she needs to undergo another one, children grows so fast!
Wow! What a great thing he is doing. Imagine how much better she feels about herself now? Awesome!
I think the story is sweet, but doctors are not just in it for helping others, though this one seems nice. They make damn good money, it’s not like he’s a firefighter or anything.
We shall see, it’s an experiment. Only time will tell. If it is beneficial to the child or not.
they can now grow functioning human ears using stem cells. not too long from now, probably in her lifetime, she’ll be able to receive something of the likes.
Hey this story is extraordinary to me, wish her best in her future as she grows older!
thts y i luv technology. its always feels nice 2 c, children smile. did i mention, being doctor is d best profession, one cn hv.
That doctor look like the old guy from pinocchio
That was sweet and such a beautiful story!!! Such a great doctor and the prosthetic ear looks perfect!
Ha, some comments on here r priceless.
“Whoever things “god” should get credit should go fuk themselfs”
love it
I hope this works out for the girl. Im happy, she looks happy. Technology is crazy now-a-days but it doesn’t have an answer for everything. thats all i have to say (:
Some of you need to be a little bit more respectful and grateful for these specials gifts. Alot of you seem so insensitive and it’s really annoying. This little girl was given a better chance at life to be happy. I am thankful for the doctors out there that can make these miracles happen.
good job doctorrrrrrrr
i hope there are no words to comment also!!!
Good Doctor
I was born with probably the same condition: congenital aural atresia. I had and still have most of my outer ear but it isn’t fully formed. At age 8, I had surgery to implant a prosthetic eardrum and to have an ear canal formed. A few weeks later the bandages came off and I could hear in the middle of my head! After a few years, the outer ear canal started to shrink shut, so again at age 10 I had to have another reconstructive surgery, or an “ear lift.” Now, I’m 16 and living life normally, sometimes I don’t even remember that I have a defect, and other people barely ever notice it. I’m so grateful for the medical possibilities and grateful to be able to hear. It’s so awesome what people are capable of. I’m glad for this little girl, her life really has changed.