"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."
Jeez...I don't even want to think about something like this. This is straight out of B-horror movie.
I hate these stories
Can you hear me now? Great!
Pictures please.
Don't they have Q-Tips in Thailand?
Yeah, now if he fries `em, he has dinner!
Gee Doc...what's the buzz?
Ewwwwww!!!
Okay! That's gross!
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!
Meanwhile, in other news, 37 declawed and coked-up hamsters were removed from Barney Frank's colon...
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.
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.
Possibly the most viscerally disturbing headline I've ever read on FR. Just...ewwwww!