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One Man’s Earthquake Is Another Man’s Miracle of the Day: A 75-year-old cancer patient at D.C.’s Veterans Affairs Hospital regained his hearing after the 5.8 East Coast Earthquake unclogged some fluid that was blocking his middle ear.

Robert Valderzak lost his hearing last Father’s Day, when he fractured his skull after falling. “He had conductive hearing loss, caused by fluid in his middle ear, as well as loss due to nerve damage,” the hospitals chief of staff Dr. Ross Fletcher told ABC News.

The quake that struck the DC area last week “shook me terrible - right out of the bed,” says Valderzak. “”But after that it stopped. And my son talked to me, and I could hear his voice.”

“A combination of a drug he was taking and the earthquake event itself likely led to him losing the fluid and gaining back his hearing,” Dr. Fletcher explained. Valderzak thinks something else deserves most of the credit. “It was God’s blessing,” he says. “It was a miracle for me.”

[abcnews / arbroath.]