Last Updated on 2020-03-12 , 5:55 pm
Today’s topic will involve cockroaches burrowing their way into your ears.
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Wait, was there a mistake in topic dissemination? I mean; this is supposed to be News of the Day, not Gross Stuff You Can Never Tahan of the Day right?
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Oh gawd, it’s real. Apparently, a cockroach crawled into a woman’s ear while she was sleeping.
Alas, without further ado, we can only head into the meat of the story.
(Cockroach meat, that is)
What exactly happened?
It all started on April 14, when Florida-based Katie Holley woke up to a distinctly cold sensation.
Groggy and confused, she headed to the bathroom and absentmindedly stuck a cotton swab inside her ear. It was then that she felt something move.
“It was like a rhythmic movement,” she recalled, feeling as if there was something attempting to dig deeper into her ear canal.
She withdrew the cotton swab and lo and behold, she saw small, dark brown pieces that apparently resembled legs. While it wasn’t certain, the signs were there.
A cockroach had apparently infiltrated her ear while she was sleeping.
Emergency room
Jordan Holley arrived at the bathroom to an extremely panicky wife, and proceeded to pluck out a couple of legs out of her ear using tweezers. But whatever it was had crawled in too deep. She needed professional help, not a pair of goddamn tweezers.
They rushed to the emergency room, which was located just a few miles away. Holley was given a wristband and fetched to a room, where she proceeded to lie on her side on a gurney.
A man then injected the bug with anesthetic Lidocaine in an attempt to kill it. Holley felt the roach wriggle and twitch in a transparent attempt to dodge death. Two minutes later, however, it was stiller than Ben Stiller.
The doctor took around 20 seconds to extract the dead roach, and Holley was sent home two hours after with a prescription for antibiotics and ear drops. And some earplugs, which she stopped by Walmart with her husband to get. Better safe than sorry, right?
It wasn’t over
Signs of discomfort for the first few days might be acceptable, explanatory, but Holley couldn’t help but feel that something’s up after nine days. According to her, her ear was numb, and yawning brought discomfort.
Worst of all her medicine drops have ceased passing through her ear, leading her to suspect built-up earwax.
Arriving for her regularly scheduled appointment, she requested for her physician to check her ear. Her doctor, alongside an assistant, proceeded to flush her ear four times. They then peeked inside using an otoscope, and saw another cockroach leg.
Holley’s doctor eventually extracted six pieces of the roach’s remains, but even then feared that there was more stuck inside. The doctor subsequently referred her to a specialist doctor in the ENT (Ears, Nose, Throat) sector.
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One can only imagine the chaos that was running through her mind then. But if I had to speculate, it would probably go something like this, “I was sleeping with a dead roach’s remains in my ear for nine days? WT* are you kidding me?”
Can’t say I blame her if she really does though. It’s tough to sleep with a dead roach in your ear. #justsaying
A head
A few minutes after the ENT doctor situated a microscope-resembling device next to Holley’s face, she started feeling something being pulled out of her ear canal. Something big. She caught sight of it, and it wasn’t a leg or two. It wasn’t even small remains you see everyday on the pathway.
It was the head, torso, limbs and a long antennae of what seemed to be a fully grown palmetto bug.
Naturally, Holley was enraged. A roach had sat in her ear for nine whole days for nothing.
“I was furious. I was really disappointed with the ER for not having seen that, for letting me believe it was all out,” Holley, a 29-year-old sales and marketing manager, told The Washington Post on Saturday. “They said this is something that happens often. I was told there’s no need to see anyone or a specialist.”
She, however, declined to name the hospital involved.
Props to you Holley. If something like that happened to me I would have the hospital’s name drafted up on a signboard and displayed for everyone to see. No name signboard? No way, you screwed up and you gotta pay the price.
And there it is, folks, an ordeal that would have terrified even the great man Nicklas Bendtner himself, had he not been… well Nicklas Bendtner. Nevertheless, I genuinely sympathise with Holley, and I hope to whoever’s up there that she never goes through such an experience again.
Before you guys slacken your jaws because you’ve just had the pest exterminators over and feel there’s no way that a roach’s gonna get in your ear…
Just know that an exterminator actually sprayed down the couple’s whole house just a few weeks earlier. So go figure.
Instead, you might want to have an exclusive ear-digging session, because apparently…
According to various sources, cockroaches might like earwax. That would explain their tendency to get inside human ears.
Although if you think positively, it’s like a free ear-cleaning tool.
But nah, I think I’m fine.
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