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Woman lived with cockroach in her ear for 9 days after it crawled in while she asleep
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:07 pm
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:07 pm
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A Florida woman lived through a real-life nightmare last month and is now sharing how she came to learn that a cockroach crawled into her ear while she was sleeping.
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However, one night she woke up after feeling “like someone had placed a chip of ice in my left earhole — but it was something way worse.”
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Holley said she went to the bathroom and used a cotton swab to investigate, but to her horror felt something move.
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“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,”
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Holley said her husband confirmed her fears that a roach had crawled into her ear, and tried to pull it out with a pair of tweezers but only managed to get two legs out. They rushed to the local hospital where a doctor administered a numbing agent that would also work to kill the bug.
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“As the doctor administered Lidocaine, the roach began to…react,” she wrote. “Feeling a roach in the throes of death, lodged in a very sensitive part of your body, is unlike anything I can adequately explain.”
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Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:08 pm to DemonKA3268
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Woman lived
misleading title. i thought she died from it
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:08 pm to DemonKA3268
RA'd because it made me want to die.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:09 pm to DemonKA3268
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:09 pm to DemonKA3268
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Florida
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:09 pm to DemonKA3268
None of this happened.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:10 pm to Slagathor
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RA'd because it made me want to die.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:10 pm to DemonKA3268
Hope they burned the ear afterwards. Only way to move on.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:12 pm to Costanza
Makes no sense. If the ER couldn't get it out, they refer to ENT who has the tools needed to get it done. Why 9 days?
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:13 pm to starsandstripes
quote:Exactly!
Makes no sense. If the ER couldn't get it out, they refer to ENT who has the tools needed to get it done. Why 9 days?
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:16 pm to DemonKA3268
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“As the doctor administered Lidocaine, the roach began to…react,” she wrote. “Feeling a roach in the throes of death, lodged in a very sensitive part of your body, is unlike anything I can adequately explain.”
The doctor removed what he said was the entire cockroach in three pieces, and Holley was given a prescription for antibiotics.
Nine days later, she was still experiencing pain. She said that she told her primary care doctor what had happened, and a physician assistant flushed her ear four times. They discovered what she thought might be another leg.
“My physician proceeded to remove the leg and flush my ear again, only to examine it and see even more remnants,” Holley wrote. “She ended up pulling out six more pieces of the roach’s carcass — nine days after the incident took place.”
Instead of sending her home, the doctor suggested she see a specialist to ensure the entire bug was removed.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:19 pm to DemonKA3268
The original article has this jewel about her seeing the ENT.
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He also told me that he extracted bugs from peoples’ ears at least once a month—and I was the second person that day who needed it.
This post was edited on 5/4/18 at 12:20 pm
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:22 pm to BobRoss
quote:I guess it happens more than we realize. It would me the hell out to have a roach in my ear!
He also told me that he extracted bugs from peoples’ ears at least once a month—and I was the second person that day who needed it.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:27 pm to DemonKA3268
Wouldn't alcohol or hydrogen peroxide kill a bug and flush it?
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:29 pm to baldona
quote:Possibly
Wouldn't alcohol or hydrogen peroxide kill a bug and flush it?
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:34 pm to DemonKA3268
my grandmother had a June bug crawl in her ear while she was sleeping. She made everyone think she was going mad, freaking out about something crawling around in her head until she went to the doctor to pull it out.
I hear more about spiders in people ears than anything.
I hear more about spiders in people ears than anything.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:35 pm to BobRoss
I have a friend.....
Who was awoke in horror hearing screaming, " there is a bug in my ear" at 2:30 am . As her husband bumble stumbled around trying to see in her earhole while she is screaming " it's wings are fluttering. "Take me to ER" while he is speeding down a dark higway,she screams "it's
coming out!" A 1 1/2" baby centipede fell into the console of the car where he proceeded to smash it. She still wanted to go to the ER. " What if it bit me"?
I heard that husband tore the bed room apart and Bengaled the hell out of it.
Who was awoke in horror hearing screaming, " there is a bug in my ear" at 2:30 am . As her husband bumble stumbled around trying to see in her earhole while she is screaming " it's wings are fluttering. "Take me to ER" while he is speeding down a dark higway,she screams "it's
coming out!" A 1 1/2" baby centipede fell into the console of the car where he proceeded to smash it. She still wanted to go to the ER. " What if it bit me"?
I heard that husband tore the bed room apart and Bengaled the hell out of it.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:36 pm to DemonKA3268
Palmetto bug in FL, btw, need more pics to ascertain level of suffering
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:38 pm to DemonKA3268
Take your baby by the ears
And play upon her darkest fears
And play upon her darkest fears
Posted on 5/4/18 at 12:40 pm to DemonKA3268
I had a cricket get in my ear during jv football practice. I had gotten in my helmet and then crawled into my ear. That shite sucked when getting it removed at the emergency room, those frickers to do not die quickly
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