And if you pull all of the legs off, you should realize that it cannot walk out on its own
And it may release its egg sack in there
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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That is actually one of my fears.
Glad you came through it...
Do yourself a favor and never read Stephen King’s Dream Catcher.
Good thing i sleep with earplugs in. LOL
“Makes me think of the flick, “Damnation Alley”, from 1977...
It came out the same year as “Star Wars”, and had twice the budget.”
According to Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History, Scarecrow Press, 1989 p 258 (at least that’s the Wikipedia citation) the movie’s budget was $8,000,000. Star Wars (1977) budget was at least $11,000,000. https://tinyurl.com/ybl6eeej
i think there was story years ago on tv’s Monster inside of Me of a little girl this happened to. took a few trys to get the right doctor to help her.
Apparently.
“Good thing i sleep with earplugs in.”
It doesn’t bother you that your ability to hear threats while you’re sleeping is impaired by the earplugs?
My dad would remove ticks from our dog by touching it’s butt with a lighted cigarette. Bastards would hit reverse from whatever depth they had got to. Then smash.
At around twelve years old a moth flew into my ear outside around dusk. The thimg fluttered like crazy and was at times painful. After a few minutes my parents got it out by flushing my ear with warm water.
I would use oil instead of alcohol, followed by salt water. But either way should work.
That is what they WANT you to think...............
My sister claimed that happened to her when visiting Africa. I suppose they got the name "Earwig" not by accident?
Another place I have no desire to visit.
I recall one night about 40 years when I woke up to a squishy feeling when I laid my hand next to my head on the bed. I wondered what it was, and turning on the light I found a fat tick. I pulled the covers back and found a dozen more.
I was single at the time and my dog was sleeping at the foot of my bed. I checked him and he was covered with blood engorged ticks. We had been out fishing down by the river that day and he must have picked them up there.
Took a couple of hours to remove all the ticks from my dog and change the sheets before I could go back to sleep.
This Wikipedia article, as well as IMDB, say that Damnation's budget was $17,000,000:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnation_Alley_(film)#Production
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075909/
One of my brothers had a ladybug fly into his ear. It flew out the other.
Ahhhh. Sad case for everyone involved—including the june bug. Congrats on the success however!!! Thank God for emergency rooms!!! Oh my!! I can’t even imagine!! I’m sure you’ve many more stories than this to tell!! ;D
I just lost my appetite for the rest of may.
A chicken could have got it out of there.
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