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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Pour alcohol into the ear
And if you pull all of the legs off, you should realize that it cannot walk out on its own
And it may release it’s egg sack in there
When I was a kid my father walked under a porch light late one night and large candle fly flew directly into his right ear. Dad was having a fit as it scratched on his eardrum. Called our family Dr. at home and he said spray a little bug spray in the ear and meet him at his office. The insect died a horrible death and it was painful to my dad. Dr. could not believe how large the insect was as he pulled it out.
Worth reading the whole thing. The doc at the ER left most of the **** thing in her ear and sent her home none the wiser...
The june bug was grateful?
Was it named Jerry?
I was walking along our yard one day when a tiny little beetle flew right in my eye. I immediately knew it was a beetle and not a gnat because I could feel it walking around on my eyball under my eye lid. Never had anything like it happen before or since. Gnats are too weak to do that, beetles have this awesome strength and really tough clingy claws. I was alone at home at the time.
The q-tip method didn’t work, it just clung to my eye. Eye drops didn’t do it, nor holding my eye open under fast flowing water. I had to literally pluck the thing off the surface of my eye, which it would cling to everytime I tried to get it with fingers or tweezers, without putting my eye out. You don’t have much depth perception with this problem.
Just awful, but I can look back at it now and think it was pretty funny. I would love to have a recording of myself trying to get that little SOB off of my eyeball. I didn’t get any scratches on my cornea, which I was thinking I would have with the way it felt.
Freegards
Thanks. I really, REALLY didn’t need to read that!!!
Yet ANOTHER reason this Yankee will NEVER live below the Mason-Dixon Line!
Good Lord! I’ll take tornadoes, blizzards, Black Bear, floods, drought, bee & wasp stings, mosquito bites, ticks, and random RABID Democrats...but at least the insects up here don’t crawl into your orifices while you sleep!
*SHUDDER*
Ditto. Dang it. 😨
Shooting them with an unloaded gun isn't very effective either.
A nuclear strike will leave to much collateral damage. Also should the entire world be destroyed by global warming, nuclear holocost, aides, Nancy Pelosi, and the Yellowstone caldera. The only things left will be lilacs, lawyers, and cockroaches. Do they make bug light earrings?
June Bugs! They are like Kevlar-plated armored tanks, LOL!
Since you cockroach parts out of your ear before going to the hospital, shouldn’t the title be “I Went to the ER with a DEAD Roach in My Ear...”?
My grandmother got a moth in ear, she said it was pretty excruciating, like galloping horses right on your ear drum.
Freegards
...IF it ever happens again...
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BTW, you just gave a clue that you're from and/or in SC... '-)
Get in there with a Philips head and stab the b@stard.
That Night Gallery was unforgettable (earwig).
I KNOW what you’re referring to...and I am NOT going there, LOL!
Unpleasant for sure.I worked in a big city ER for years and we saw this pretty regularly.Typically it isn’t difficult for an ENT specialist to deal with...but patients typically don’t enjoy the experience.
I thought earwigs went for the ears and cockroaches went.... uhmm... never mind....I see where this might be headed.
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