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05-28-2005, 08:53 AM
STUNNED Tania Shirt's ear fell off as she dried her hair following surgery to stop them sticking out.
Skin around the left ear had died and gone black because dressings around it were too tight, cutting off blood flow.
It worked lose and came off as Tania, 34, got ready for a New Year's night out two months after the operation.
"I was at home on my own when it happened and didn't know if the doctors could do anything for me. I thought it would be like that for the rest of my life," said the divorced mum-of-two. Care assistant Tania had always hated her ears, wearing her hair long and avoiding swimming.
"If my hair got wet I'd burst into floods of tears," she said.
She had surgery after her mum, whose ears also protruded, underwent a successful op. After her ear fell off Tania had plastic surgery. A new ear was carved out of cartilage from her rib. As it is her tissue, the body cannot reject it.
The ear will lie flat against her head in a pocket of skin until blood flow re-establishes. Her new look will be completed with further surgery later this year.
Tania, of Barnsley, South Yorks - compensated for the surgery in 2000 that went wrong - said: "Obviously I haven't enjoyed losing my ear or the pain, but it's been a fascinating and educational experience.""
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Skin around the left ear had died and gone black because dressings around it were too tight, cutting off blood flow.
It worked lose and came off as Tania, 34, got ready for a New Year's night out two months after the operation.
"I was at home on my own when it happened and didn't know if the doctors could do anything for me. I thought it would be like that for the rest of my life," said the divorced mum-of-two. Care assistant Tania had always hated her ears, wearing her hair long and avoiding swimming.
"If my hair got wet I'd burst into floods of tears," she said.
She had surgery after her mum, whose ears also protruded, underwent a successful op. After her ear fell off Tania had plastic surgery. A new ear was carved out of cartilage from her rib. As it is her tissue, the body cannot reject it.
The ear will lie flat against her head in a pocket of skin until blood flow re-establishes. Her new look will be completed with further surgery later this year.
Tania, of Barnsley, South Yorks - compensated for the surgery in 2000 that went wrong - said: "Obviously I haven't enjoyed losing my ear or the pain, but it's been a fascinating and educational experience.""
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15554765&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=plastic-surgery-mum--my-ear-fell-off-name_page.html