Just goes to show that when technology is used to benefit the people, you can afford to loose an ear... Now if only they would do something about those pesky GMO ears of corn.

"When chambord Walter lost her ear to cancer two years ago, she told herself she’d never be one of those survivors attaching a prosthetic ear every day.

“The concept of having to tape something to my skin every day didn’t feel like that was who I was,” the 42-year-old mother of two told ABC News. “I could just see my kids running around with it, yelling, ‘I have mommy’s ear!’”

But doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore offered Walter a chance at a new ear — a permanent one built from her own tissue. "

[link to abcnews.go.com]