"Oh sir it was Khan! we found him on Setia Alpha 5, he put creatures in our ears to control our minds, made us say lies, do things."
Posted on 04/26/2005 8:01:14 PM PDT by new cruelty
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Doctors found around 50 maggots in the ears of an 84-year-old Thai man after he went to hospital complaining of an itch.
Wednesday's Nation newspaper said Anan Temtan, who lives in the tsunami-hit southern resort island of Phuket, had used cotton buds to relieve the itching, but had scratched so hard his eardrums ruptured and started bleeding.
"We believe flies might have gone inside his ears to lay eggs, which hatched into larvae and caused the itching," said Somsak Nonthasri, the doctor who treated him.
Somsak, who used tweezers and a small suction device to remove the maggots, said Anan would be kept in for observation for a while to make sure no more eggs hatched.
I'm pretty sure I could have gone all year without reading this story. Damn my eyes for clicking here.
What? No pictures?
Ugh! Can't stand the thought of maggots, much less in the ears!
50??!!
I thought there were only 45 of them in the Senate!
"50??!!
I thought there were only 45 of them in the Senate!"
You forgot their lawyers.
Meanwhile, in other news, 37 declawed and coked-up hamsters were removed from Barney Frank's colon...
"'Oh sir it was Khan! we found him on Setia Alpha 5, he put creatures in our ears to control our minds, made us say lies, do things.'"
This was just a matter of time :p
Time...is a luxury you do not have...Kuuuuuurk!!!
OUCH!
Nice.
Now I really, really want to see WOK again. Such an awesome flick.
Back in the days when I was practicing Emergency Medicine, I've removed all sorts or weird stuffs from people's ears, adults and kids alikE. From lodged cotton Q-tips to mardi gras beads, to little eraser heads, from cockroaches to insects, flies, and yes, even maggots...the funniest and most surprising thing that I've ever discovered in an ear belongs to that of a 5 years old little boy. And the story still has me chuckling to this day. His mother had just given him a bath and was cleaning his ears with a cotton swab as mothers usually do. She saw something unusual and brought the child to the ER. I looked in there and saw something that was white and looked like a plastic tube of some type. There was a little bit of blood around it. The darn thing was also lodged into the tympanic membrane causing a perforation. I had the nurses held down the kid. Took an alligator forcep and pulled it out. Upon careful inspection....IT WAS A TOOTH! When looking at the ear with an otoscope, it was the root of the tooth that I was looking at and hence it had the appearance of a hollow tube. What's a tooth doing in a kid's ear? Naturally, I quickly inspected the child's mouth...nope, wasn't his. All of his tooth were still there. Plus, he's only five, not quite at the age yet to lose his primary teeth. His mother was freakin' out. "A TOOTH??" She gasped. His 7 years old sister, however, was also in the room beaming with a sardonic smile. She had a missing front tooth. Yup, it was hers. She had shoved her tooth into her little brother's ear. Kids!!! My discharge instructions included "DO NOT PUT ANYTHING IN YOUR EARS OR ANYBODY ELSE'S EARS EXCEPT FOR YOUR KNEES OR ELBOWS!" That's what my mom always told me when I was growing up anyhow.
I hear ya...
I have a cat, see?...and he somehow broke his tail...but the doctor said it had already healed ( at a funny angle!) and so don't worry about it. Soooooooooo a few months later I smell this awful odor and when I find the cat in the dark garage his tail is all wet and gooey.....So back to the vet ( and better lighting!)where it is discovered that the tail has DIED and is being EATEN by maggots!!!!!
Cat came home without his tail...!
When I was in Nursing school, I had a patient that had a huge necrotic bed sore. They actually put maggots in the wound to eat out the dead tissue. I then had another one that had what they call a muscle flap. It was getting full of blood, which is a bad thing, so instead of operating on him they used leeches to suck out the blood. Both gross, but effective.
That reminds me of the scene in Gladiator wherein Maximus, wounded and unconscious, is being carted to a slave trader. Neat stuff.
I havent seen Gladiator, I guess I'll have to check it out.
Great story.
Have you ever watched House MD? There is an episode with a humorous storyline (more like something to fill in the gaps of the main storyline) wherein Dr. House repeatedly treats a toddler who is having difficulty breathing. The doctor quickly notices there is a small toy lodged in the child's nose. I think it was a toy policeman. The second visit produces a toy fire truck. Thinking everything is fine, the young uncle who took the child in becomes worried when the child continues to have difficulty breathing and so he takes the child in for a third time. The doctor initially thought the child was a little slow (he makes some reference to the shallowness of that family's gene pool), then changes his mind when he pulls out a toy kitten from the child's nose. He determines that the kid was solving a problem on his own by sending in more toys to help rescue the kitten.
While you're here, check out the gross story in #35.
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