Mother: Gail Schwartzman

Husband: unknown

Items Destroyed: mother’s hearing, daughter’s confidence

Estimated Cost to Husband: deaf wife and a daughter filled with lifelong guilt over it

Story: Talk about a one two punch, female on female destruction right here. When Gail’s daughter was 4 yrs old she went to kiss her mother on the ear after her Mom had returned from work. Apparently it wasn’t the volume of the kiss that did the damage but the suction. The little girl sucked so hard it displaced the eardrum and paralyzed 3 bones (see diagram). What the heck kind of kiss is this little girl going for? The mother is taking it like a champ and is more worried for her daughter.

“Schwartzman said the kiss was painful, but said her daughter’s emotional scars are more agonizing.”

To add insult to injury, this A-hole doctor had this to say.

“The moral here is simple,” said Levi Reiter, chairman of audiology at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., who studied Schwartzman’s case and said a similar incident happened in the 1950s. “Try not to hurt the ones you love.”

Gee, thanks doc, as if the little girl didn’t have enough guilt. Why don’t you just go ahead and seal the future of dysfunction for this little girl, appreciate it.

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