Dowbrigade

THE world’s "hairiest man" was recovering at a Shanghai hospital
after undergoing an operation to remove hair that had impaired his hearing,
a hospital official and state media said.

Yu Zhenhuan, a 26-year-old Chinese singer, had lost one-third of his hearing
due to excess hair inside his ears and had suffered from constant headaches,
the Xinhua news agency reported.

He underwent a four-hour operation at a Shanghai hospital where doctors cut skin
from his ears, removed the hair and follicles to prevent the hair from growing
back and then reattached the skin to his ears.

"It was a successful operation," a doctor at the hospital told AFP,
declining to give her name. "He’s still hospitalized."

Yu was listed in 2002 as the world’s hairiest man by the Guinness Book of Records,
according to Xinhua.

Ninety-six percent of Yu’s body is covered with hair, except for his palms and
the soles of his feet, Xinhua said.

As we age, we are finding the ear is the one part of
the body which seems to grow MORE hair, and the Dowbrigade will soon
be
old
enough
to need
an operation like this. Obviously, we do NOT, as Norma Yvonne has implied,
need a hearing aide. We wonder if this is covered by our health insurance…

from Xinhua via news.com.au