Hopkins Doctors Grow New Ear On Woman’s Arm

CBS Baltimore ^ | 9/26/12 | unknown

[crosshairs]

Reporting Derek Valcourt

Filed under Health, Local, News, Seen On, Syndicated Local, Watch + Listen Related tags Ear, Hospital, Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Ear, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Sherrie HWalters. Trending Popular Entertainment Photo Galleries Car Snapped: Celebrities Caught On The Go Celebrity Twins Notable Deaths Of 2012 All-Time Father-Son Celebrity Duos 25 Downs: NFL Injuries Over The Years » More Photo Galleries BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Johns Hopkins doctors are once again making history–this time by using a woman’s own tissue to build her a new ear.

Derek Valcourt explains with doctors’ help, her own body has replaced what an aggressive form of cancer took away.

You don’t have to tell Sherrie Walters her story sounds like science fiction.

“No, I feel like an experiment,” Walters said.

[crosshairs]

Dr. Pablo Picasso, I presume.

[gorush]

Cool! She can listen to her own heart without a stethoscope.

[JRandomFreeper]

What?!

/johnny

[GeronL]

Insanity

[a fool in paradise]

Great, now the Japanese will be doing this body modification as well.

[rightwingcrazy]

Taking “talk to the hand” rather literally.

[llevrok]

Isn’t something like that what happened to Cong. Henry Waxman’s nose?

But I digress.

[Doogle]

"..?????..does she nudge people when she don't hear them?

[over3Owithabrain]

I bet when she claps it’s REALLY loud..

[Daffynition]

Ms. Walters is going to have to go some to beat this: Beauty queen has quarter of her skull removed and stored in her STOMACH for six weeks after fishing accident . . . before doctors successfully re-attach it

[ClearCase_guy]

Argus Panoptes had 100 eyes all over his body. Those Greeks were way ahead of their time.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I bet Argus never received a Red Rider BB gun for Christmas because of that!

[Jeff Chandler]

"Can you hear me now?"

[Charles Henrickson]

Hopkins Doctors Grow New Ear On Woman’s Arm

Hey, that's nothing. In Japan, they're growing bagels on people's foreheads:

[paul51]

Doc, I have this ringing in my elbow

[CrazyIvan]

I’d learn to shoot with the other hand.

[elkfersupper]

So, I guess it is now possible to grow boobs on a woman’s back so she’s more fun to dance with? (I know, old joke).

[Sarajevo]

[Right Wing Assault]

She will be filing a lawsuit shortly after specifically asking for a new ear on her head.

Her doctor claims to have “misheard” what he thought was an unusual request, but he always follows the “customer knows best” philosophy and obliged by growing the ear on her arm.

[dfwgator]

When she plays piano now she can literally “play by ear.”