Calvin Wright was always a loud talker, and he finally knows why. The 46-year-old had a pearl from his mother's necklace stuck in his ear since he was five years old, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Wright found the lost gem earlier this month when he went to the emergency room with bronchitis.
"The nurse was checking my ear and said, ‘Do you use Q-Tips?'" Wright told the Journal-Constitution. "I said yes, and she said, ‘You've got one in your right ear, I'll get it out.' She tried getting it and then she was like, ‘Whoa, this is hard. This is not a Q-Tip. Looks like you got a pearl in your ear.'"
A specialist removed the pearl, which Wright kept.
Calvin Wright Pearl Removed After 41 years
When Wright was five, his mom left him and his sister home with the babysitter. The siblings seized this opportunity to go after their mom's pearl necklace, which his sister broke.
When the necklace snapped, pearls went everywhere, and Wright shoved two of them in his ear, prompting an emergency trip to the doctor.
"I was hollering so bad, then the doctor said, ‘I got it out,'" Wright said.
"I remember I got two green lollipops. I didn't think more about it."
But there was another pearl lodged deep in his ear that the doctor failed to notice, and the boy forgot all about.
Upon removing the long-lost pearl, doctors asked Wright if he'd suffered any side effects over the years, like heartaches or sinus problems. All he could think of was his loud voice.
Calvin Wright Pearl Removed After 41 years
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