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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There was a Night Gallery episode titled The Catepillar, that featured an earwig climbing into a guy’s ear.
Fine for killing the creature but what about extracting the dead carcas? Still a sticky situation there.
My grandson once stuck a popcorn kernel in his ear. (who knows why a two year old does stuff like that?) We grabbed a cotton swab, put some Elmer’s Glue on it and popped that sucker right out.
Am I the only one who is wondering why clickbait is being posted on FreeRepublic?
Just pour 91% rubbing alcohol into your ear.
Flush with hydrogen peroxide.
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No wonder your name is Deaf Smith
I just hate when that happens! I sleep with earplugs now.
How about douse the ear with rubbing alcohol. Kills the roach in no time.
“I have cures for other bugs but probably not apporiate for this forum. Just sayin”
Does it involve a razor, ice pick and match?
“Just pour 91% rubbing alcohol into your ear.”
Precisely. Some decent vodka would work, too, though wasteful.
Friday night always has the best stories.
Even if the roach survives, you won't care.
“U.S. Food and Drug Administration place limits on how many insect
parts different food items can have”
Not only do they get in your ears,
we evidently eat small bits and
pieces of bug body parts also.
Found a big green whole grasshopper
in a can of green beans once.
Not doing that and going to the ER instead makes for a better story.
Def Leopard had copy right problems./s
That happened to me a few times when I lived in Queens New york city which is about the most roach infested area on earth. I use to sit on my couch watching TV and those mofos would crawl on my neck and legs. It was like patting away mosquitoes only they were cockroaches. Oh yes, and we had this alcoholic woman living on the top floor who one night put chicken in her oven then went to the bar and forgot about the chicken and of course the chicken ignited and started a fire, and when the firemen came, all the water they used to put out the fire went behind the walls and pushed all the cockroaches out into the stairwell and there were millions of them, waterfalls down the stairs and that smell of millions piss smelling cockroaches, some as big as my thumb, the entire building filled with them. But I would be sleeping and would wake up with them on my face, and the few times they would be in my ear and I would pull them out with tweezers. Oh yes, and one night waking up with one crawling up my nose.
If you have kids who get stars in their eyes about being actors or artists and think moving to NYC is great, do whatever you can to stop them. I grew up there, there is not enough money on this earth to ever get me to move back to that leftist sh*thole from hell. That city will literally drive you crazy, it is literally one huge sewer dump on a rock. I use to work in Greenpoint Brooklyn and would walk to work 4am and the garbage bags would be moving from the rats eating holes in them and going through them. You would think a person would be in these bags they moved so much, but it was rats. Thousands of rats going through the garbage coming up from Newton creek which occasionally would have a human body floating in it. And this was 20 years ago. Today I would imagine it’s a zillion times worse especially since the asstards there elected a commie Mayor twice.
I would have considered using a vacuum cleaner. The hose would have to have a slider opening to allow for controlling the pressure.
It took almost two weeks and three doctors to get the whole thing out.
Stop. It. Just. Stop. It! LOL!
Here in Upstate NY, the constant freezing and thawing in winter makes it difficult for roaches to survive. Unless one’s house is a real sewer, you won’t ever get roaches.
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