I know a guy who managed to get a bug out of his ear by shining a flashlight in his ear. Apparently, the bug was attracted to the light and walked out by itself.
Posted on 01/11/2014 1:23:26 PM PST by BenLurkin
With the pain becoming excruciating, his flatmate rushed him to hospital where a doctor put oil down the ear canal.
This only forced the two centimeter (0.8 inch) roach to crawl in deeper, before it eventually began to die.
"Near the 10 minute mark ... somewhere about there, he started to stop burrowing but he was still in the throes of death twitching," said Helmer.
At that point the doctor put forceps into his ear and pulled out the cockroach.
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You were so screwed.
A few years ago we were camping with the Cub Scouts Father/Son weekend and a friend of mine had an earwig crawl in his ear. We got it out by putting a bright flashlight against his ear and it came toward the warm lens.
Was scary though. Thankfully it was an adult leader and not one of the scouts.
Maybe that is the evolutionary reason hair grows long on our head. To protect the ears.
I know a guy who managed to get a bug out of his ear by shining a flashlight in his ear. Apparently, the bug was attracted to the light and walked out by itself.
Interesting observation. Bad news for those with male pattern baldness thought if that’s the case.
This makes me want to wear earmuffs to bed!
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That looks like a cockeyed poodle face viewed thru beer glasses...
Thanks for the laugh. I was getting a little heebe jeebe. Nothing like a booger or a fart to lighten things up.
ROTFL...thanks!
My grandmother had a moth fly in her ear, had to get the doctor. She said it was deafening.
I was walking on the lawn once and a tiny little black beetle flew into my eye. Of course your eye immediately closes. And unlike a gnat or something this beetle was strong enough with those hooked feet to be actually crawling around on my eye under my eyelids. It was a beetle so I couldn’t wash it out, it just stuck to my eyeball like beetles do to your clothing. Let me tell you depth perception suffers when you are trying to pluck a beetle from your own eye with tweezers while looking in a mirror.
Freegards
Aaaaauuuuurrrgh!!! I can feel that!
LOL!
I thought for sure I was going to have scratches, especially the place where I finally caught it with the tweezers and plucked it off my eyeball. Pretty delicate as I was scared that it might leave a leg or foot behind if I pinched too hard and pulled. The thing was tiny. But I guess its little hooked feet just didn’t dig in deep enough. Sure felt pretty deep as it was happening.
Freegards
Yes, ear candles are amazing. Clears out the wax better than anything I’ve tried.
Back in the day, the Nurse in the Medical Unit at the U.S. Embassy at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia was trying to figure out what was causing one of the staff member’ s face such excruciating pain. She went up his nasal cavities with a calipers and after some gyrating, she withdrew a squirming inch of cockroach. The brute must’ve crawled up there while the guy was sleeping. I learned about this a few days before I signed an agreement for a two-year there. If I had told my late wife about that, my tour would almost assuredly have been unaccompanied.
I think it’s been shown that ear candles don’t do much of anything.
Don’t tell me. Let me guess.
The ear was attached to the head of a Mexican illegal residing in a Motel 6.
I start out softening 'em up with Debrox drops a few hours ahead of the process.
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