Posted on 07/01/2015 7:50:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Saline County teenager woke up Tuesday morning with excruciating pain in one of his ears. Grant Botti, 14, says he felt something strange in his ear and decided to grab hold of it. What he pulled out, would shock everyone.
It was a 4-inch long centipede. Grant's mom, Angela Botti, put the still-alive centipede in a plastic bag and took Grant to the emergency room because he was still in pain.
A doctor at Saline Memorial examined Grant's ear, finding some small abrasions in his ear drum. He was treated and released.
Grant's mom says they don't know where the centipede came from, but that Grant had been outdoors swimming recently.
Doctors and nurses at Saline Memorial told the family they have seen people come in with all kinds of things in their ears, but that centipede was a first.
Another reason to wear hearing aids!
Is there a ping list for this?
SALINE COUNTY, AZ
No such county in AZ.
“Is there a ping list for this?”
Yes.
If you want to be on the Unusual Things in Ears Pinglist, pm me.
If you want to be on the Centipedes over 3.5 inches Long Pinglist. pm me.
(I will laugh at you...)
Thanks for the nightmares!
Same thing happened to my GD...but her *visitor* was a Japanese beetle ....probably from the swimming pool.
I’m guessing this type of centipede isn’t poisonous? I’m glad.
I got stung in the elbow by a 6-inch centipede in N. Texas. For the next several hours it felt like someone had poured gasoline on my arm and set a match to it. To have that happen in, on, or near the ear would be torment.
bizarre. that hospital is in Arkansas. They screwed up the whole article.
Saline COunty, Arkansas
There’s a Saline Cty, Arkansas, and a Saline Memorial Hospital in it as well.
All centipedes are poisonous.
ROFL
Reminds me of an old Rod Serling NIGHT GALLERY episode about the earwig.
I’m sure glad he wasn’t hurt worse then!
Similar thing happened to my Dr. relative who was training. Had to remove a moth from a guy’s ear.
“Similar thing happened to my Dr. relative who was training. Had to remove a moth from a guy’s ear.”
Happened to me. It was a burrowing moth and it got all the way to my eardrum. It had it’s head up against it and tried to keep going. Sounded like a chainsaw in my head. Finally drowned it in mineral oil but still had to have a doctor extract it.
Poisonous (can’t eat them) or venomous (bite/sting and get you?) Not that I was planning on either mind you. Although if venomous, might be good to know when out in the woods!
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