Posted on 02/19/2014 7:12:56 PM PST by Straight Vermonter
A British woman returned from a trip to Peru hearing scratching noises inside her head. Thinking she had an ear infection, she went to the hospital, where a consultant found something much worse: Maggots were digging through a small hole in her ear-canal, eating her flesh.
“I was very scared,” said Rochelle Harris, “Were they in my brain?”
Probably, Mrs. Harris. The maggots have you now.
Before she got her ear checked, she had more than a few clues that there was something more serious than an ear infection happening. During her trip, she remembered dislodging a fly from her ear. She was also getting regular headaches and pains on one side of her face, and she’d occasionally wake up with her pillow wet from a liquid that leaked from her ear.
The doctors first attempted to flush out the maggots with olive oil. After that failed, they resorted to surgery, removing a total of eight maggots from her head. Harris explains,
“It was the longest few hours that I have ever had to wait… I could still feel them and hear them and knowing what those scratching sounds were, and knowing what that wriggling feeling was, that just made it all the worse.”
That’s just something a human whose brain is now controlled by writhing maggots would say.
H/t NBC News
Yeah, because there is lots of dead flesh between those ears.
Yup. People always think of the tropics as some kind of Eden-like paradise but the place can be a real horror show as well.
LOL!
Wow. All this time I thought that Funkadelics album’s title was symbolic!
These aren’t regular maggots. I can’t remember what it’s called but it’s fairly common there.
Maggots eat dead flesh, not living tissue.
Might be a lefty brain..
bttt!
Oh, this is too good.
Eddie Hazel was a genius with a guitar. Throughout the late 60s in the Bay Area, Maggot Brain was one of the most requested... at 3 AM on weekends.
“And the maggots ate into his brain”
Supposed to be worms Hey You - Floyd
New world screwworm fly.
Somehow I think a piece with the title of "Maggot Brain" is more appropriate. Give it a listen if you are not familiar with it.
Night Gallery ping.
It’s an unforgettable guitar solo.
BUT IT WAS PREGNANT AND IT LAID EGGS!!!!
AAAAAAAAUGH!
I’ve hated earwigs ever since.
Botflies/warbles.
{{{shudder}}}
I’ve seen people in Peru stuffing maggots into their ears rather than listen to Bette Midler.
You’ve probably heard the story that George Clinton told Eddie Hazel to play like his mother just died.
The 48-year-old went to hospital after having earache for 24 hours
Doctors removed her hearing aid and found her ear was full of discharge
They examined her ear and found the fruit fly larva moving around inside it
It was removed and she was given antibiotics but has now fully recovered
Nice vid at the link for those inclined...
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