We’ve all feared getting an earring stuck, but this is much worse.
Radio star Fifi Box, 49, revealed her face “started to feel paralysed” after a freak accident involving her earring left her in excruciating pain.
“I thought I was heading to the emergency ward at the hospital because I was in so much trouble,” she told listeners this week on Hit Network’s Fifi, Fev and Nick show.
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“I kept thinking, how will I explain this to a doctor?” Box recalled. (Instagram / @fififevnick)
Fifi explained she was chewing gum on Wednesday when the right side of her face was “throbbing”.
“It was the most acute pain in my jaw and my ear but I was panicking going, what was happening to my face?”
She was in so much pain but couldn’t understand why. Then it hit her.
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The mum-of-two was originally left puzzled over the sudden pain. (Instagram / @fifi_box)
She remembered the day before, she knocked her head on co-host Fev’s shoulder.
“I screamed, do you remember I screamed at first?” she recalled. ”I thought my ear was bleeding.”
She remembered that her earring with a post, the small rod that passes through the ear, had “punctured” her neck as they collided.
“I was thinking to myself, I’ve jabbed like a nerve or something,” she realised.
The star said the pain was so bad, she couldn’t eat all day. (Instagram / @fifi_box)
“If there’s any acupuncturist listening, they might know what happened. But it was like I’d given myself nerve damage to the point where I couldn’t eat yesterday.”
The mum-of-two then asked AI to help diagnose her medical “emergency” while on-air, which suggests she’s doing just fine.
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