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Calvin Wright Pearl Removed After 41 years - An Athens, Ga., man recently discovered he had a pearl stuck in his ear — for more than four decades. 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 sib...

Calvin Wright Pearl Removed - When he was five, little Calvin Wright stuck a pearl in his ear after it fell off his mom's necklace. 41 years later, it finally came out. "I notice I can hear myself better," he says. Wright and his sister were playing with their mom's necklace when it broke. He put two pearls in his ear; the doctor only took out one. This month, he went to the hospital in Atlanta after coming down with Bronchitis: Calvin Wright Pearl Removed "The nurse was checking my ear and said, ‘Do you use Q-Tips?'" Wright said. "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.'" Nurse practitioner Christina Harrelson and nurse Haley Faulkner referred Wright to a specialist. Dr. James Dempsey removed the pearl, which Wright kept. Calvin Wright Pearl Removed