Tango01  | 16 May 2018 4:08 p.m. PST |
…and It Can Happen to You. "Another day, another story about an insect crawling into a person's ear and making itself at home. Katie Holley, a Florida resident, woke up in the middle of the night to a weird sensation in her ear, "like someone had placed a chip of ice in my left earhole," she wrote in an essay published in Self magazine. At first, her husband tried to remove the invader with tweezers. But that strategy wasn't successful, so they went to the emergency room. There, the doctor confirmed her suspicion: A cockroach was in her ear canal. To get the insect out, he first killed it with lidocaine (a numbing agent) and then removed it using tweezers. But in the days that followed, Holley had soreness in her ear and trouble hearing. When she returned to the doctor nine days later, she learned that she still had pieces — including the entire head — of the roach lodged in her ear…."
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 Mserafin | 16 May 2018 5:22 p.m. PST |
As if I needed any more reasons to not live in Florida. |
| Zephyr1 | 16 May 2018 8:48 p.m. PST |
Fun's not over yet. Just wait until the eggs hatch… ;-) |
| Old Wolfman | 17 May 2018 7:00 a.m. PST |
Sounds like urban legend stuff.almost. |
 Legion 4 | 17 May 2018 7:05 a.m. PST |
Yeah I've heard similar and I too believe it is "urban" legend.
However, in places like the deep jungle and the swamps and streams, etc., that flow thru it. There are some things that will swim or crawl into openings on the human body. Yikes !  |
| Gokiburi | 17 May 2018 10:07 a.m. PST |
When I was a grade schooler, I had the incredibly unlikely event of an earwig falling out of a tree and crawling into my ear. Thankfully one of the teachers had the presence of mind to figure a way to coax it out. It was a pretty traumatizing event for a seven year old. It's so rare that it's not worth worrying about, but insects that like warm, tight spaces do occasionally end up accidentally entering human orifices. |
| Tango01 | 17 May 2018 10:38 a.m. PST |
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| Zephyr1 | 17 May 2018 2:10 p.m. PST |
Believe it or not, on average you swallow about 8 spiders a night while sleeping… |
| Legion 4 | 18 May 2018 2:59 p.m. PST |
Well if so … why Don't I have super powers like Spider-Man ? Oh … wait … they'd have to be radioactive spiders …  |
| Cacique Caribe | 18 May 2018 7:04 p.m. PST |
Yeah, they should have sent in a spider to take care of that roach. :) Dan
PS. Jumping spiders have been known to hide in ears occasionally:
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| Tango01 | 19 May 2018 12:00 p.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 19 May 2018 12:48 p.m. PST |
Tango I can send you a few, if you like. :) Dan |
wants to know if you can tell the difference between weaker and stronger magnets with 3mm aircraft.
