They fly too!!
Posted on 05/04/2018 6:55:55 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Last year, my husband and I purchased our first house. Lucky for us new homeowners, the house needed minimal work.
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Last month, in the middle of the night, I woke up startled. It felt like someone had placed a chip of ice in my left earhole—but it was something way worse.
I shot up out of bed, disoriented, and stumbled to the bathroom. I could feel that my ear was not right. I grabbed a cotton swab and gently inserted it into my ear to see what was up and I felt something move.
When I pulled the cotton swab out, there were two dark brown, skinny pieces stuck to the tip. Moments later, I came to the realization that they were legs. LEGS. Legs that could only belong to an adventurous palmetto bug exploring my ear canal.
I started to hyperventilate, and my husband searched furiously for his glasses and joined me in the bathroom. He looked into my ear and confirmed that there was a roach trying to burrow its way to my brain. (OK, I know the ear canal isn’t a hop, skip, and a jump away from the brain, but that’s immediately where my mind went.)
In that moment, my husband was my only hope. He grabbed a pair of tweezers, located the thickest part of the roach that was visible (I KNOW) and tried to very delicately extract it. (For what it’s worth, my husband is a professional percussionist, and all of his hand movements are very precise.)
Unfortunately, he only managed to pull two of its spiky legs off. At that point, it was clear I needed to go to the ER.
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They fly too!!
“I Went to the ER with a Live Roach in My Ear and It Was as Horrifying as You Think”
Roach bad. Gerbil worse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqGKDqi3Yw
Armageddon!!
"It was a female. And a female... lays eggs."
Regards,
I’m not even going to read this. Yuck.
I was ok with this thread and the comments until this one.
I'm boraxing the house tomorrow. Boxes and Boxes of borax.
On a personal note. When I was a young boy I had a dog tick set up house-keeping in my ear. It attached to the ear drum. It was not loud like the insects, but it was rigidly attached. I had a bad earache. So my Mom and Dad took me to our family physician. He looked with an otoscope and saw the tick but could not make the I.D. My Dad looked and knew it was a tick. He asked if kerosene would harm me. Dr.Bridges said it would not. So...my dad went and got a small amount of kerosene and they put several drops in my ear canal. The tic let the membrane go and we were able to get it out. My DAD had been raised on a ranch and had seen ticks many times in the dogs ear canals. That was my story. It actually happened again several years later....Same thing.
My son pulled a wild panic on my wife and I. He told us that he planted a bean in his ear to see if it would grow out in a planat. He didn’t anticipate that the bean would expand as it went through the germination process. I turned into a pain he would not forget. Thankfully the ER doctor had a gripper appliance that grabbed that plant and pulled it out of his ear. It was very much like a bean sprout.
I thought of that scene too. It’s from Night Gallery or Creepshow?
Damnation Alley?
I wanted to drown her in water but we had none. The son did have a nice bottle of vodka under the seat. So we poured his ear full of vodka and drown the bee, she semi retracted her stinger and we got her out without stinging him.
It was a close call and the old man had one clean ear.
No. It’s apparently from some dopey looking ‘70s sci-fi movie called “Bug”. Never seen it myself. Found the pic on a Google search for “roach” + “ear”.
Here’s a trailer from the film..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dYh7G2HQI98
You’ve convinced me.
Just... eww.
From the movie ‘Damnation Alley’
That was our experience when we visited the ER in California. We who subsidized the losers were treated after the long line of losers.
We bought a box of ear plugs in anticipation of going to a rock concert a while ago. Trust me; they dim noise not at all. We live too close to a major interstate highway and sometimes I can’t sleep because of the noise. I thought those earplugs would take the edge off. They did not. So I’d never worry about not hearing intruders or threats.
Many years ago I had a co-worker who was investigating schools for the deaf for her 5-year-old son. Then the doctor discovered the kid had put beans in his ears a couple years earlier. They’d been covered with wax. Extracted the beans and no more deaf school.
Oh my God!! And here I was worried about a lousy cockroach!
I think the last King I read was, ‘The Shining.’
I’m more a Ray Bradbury kind of gal. ;)
LOL! Well, I made it through another night unscathed, Thank Goodness!
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