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Wow . I won’t be able to sleep tonight thinking about this .

Every..single...time I get an ear itch, I think BUG!!!!, not ear hair or dirt or something other than BUG!!!! *yuck*

When I was a kid I had a deer tick attach to my ear drum. It was swelled with blood and the doctor had never seen that condition. My dad suggested 1 drop of kerosene. So with one drop of kerosene the tick released his desperate hold and he was removed and then squashed.

Later I was working in the ER when a young man came in. He had been riding in the rear of a pickup truck. It was a warm summer night. As the wind blew in his hair a June Bug must have hit just right and went into external acoustic meatus. Now a June Bug is a beetle with a rather hard exoskeleton. The bug wallowed around inside his ear for a long time until he got to the ER. He was screaming like a baby. He said the noise was so loud he could not stand it. Anyway I got some forceps and was able to grab the insect. But he was dug in. So, I had to morsellate the creature, then lavage it from the canal. He seemed grateful after his ordeal.