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'I thought I was going deaf… but had a LEGO brick stuck in my ear for 20 YEARS'

'I thought I was going deaf… but had a LEGO brick stuck in my ear for 20 YEARS'
A student who believed he was going deaf woke in the middle of the night with his left ear in agony. The journalism undergraduate had recently seen the doctor about his worrying hearing loss.

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