Posted on 05/02/2019 5:10:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Three days after a 9-year-old Connecticut boy started to hear a strange buzzing sound in his ear, his parents took him to a doctor at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital.
The boy reported that he had no pain in his ear, no hearing loss, and no ringing or signs of tinnitus. He said he’d been playing outdoors recently on school days.
Then the doctor, Erik Waldman, looked into the boy’s ear and saw a true vision of horror—a brown arachnid burrowing into the epidermal layer of the eardrum and feasting on the child’s blood.
The tick couldn’t be removed at the doctor’s office, so the boy was moved to an operating room.
Kasle was able to remove the tick’s feeding structure with a fine hook tool. The boy’s eardrum remained intact. Tests a month later revealed the child did not get rashes or fever from the tick.
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Glad the boy is OK. That made my ears itch just reading about it.
I'm eating supper and I just puked..........Thank God there was no picture posted..........
Eeeeeeeeeew!
Go to the article...
Each night as you sleep, you become a grocery outlet for insects. Some like it so much, they decide to move in on the spot. Squatters can be real parasites!
made me pleased at my dicsion to GTF out of New England.
Live on acres of gorgeous scenic land but cant go out back with out picking at least one of those parasites off of me evry time I head out.
If it and local and state government sucking the life out of me its TICKS.
Buh Bye
Need DDT returned to our shores.
Another Democrat bloodsucker.
Yup
Dr: Well, Timmy I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you get to light this Strike-Anywhere match and watch the flame. The bad news? I’m going to blow it out and stick it in your ear. Ready when you are.
Poly = many
Ticks = insane blood sucking insects.
Fortunately for the boy, this was not an endangered tick.
Could be worse. It could have eaten thru his brain to the other side or laid eggs....
THIS!!!!!!
The Twilight Zone “Night Gallery” earwig episode Freaked Me Out for years!
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