Posted on 01/14/2022 9:07:08 AM PST by Red Badger
Zane Wedding, of Auckland, New Zealand, initially thought he had water trapped in his ear, but later discovered a cockroach in his ear canal was causing the blockage. Photo by Erik_Karits/Pixabay.com
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Jan. 13 (UPI) -- A New Zealand man who initially thought he had water trapped in his ear said the true cause of the blockage turned out to be something far more shocking -- a live cockroach.
Zane Wedding, 40, of Auckland, said he went swimming at a local pool Friday and later felt the sensation of blockage in his ear.
"I used some drops to clear it up and fell asleep on the couch later that night," Wedding told CNN.
He said his ear still felt blocked the next day, so he went to see a doctor, who advised him to try using a hairdryer to dry up the water inside his ear canal.
Wedding said the feeling persisted, so he went to see an ear, nose and throat specialist on Monday.
He said the doctor expressed shock immediately upon looking inside his ear.
"She said: 'I think you have an insect in your ear,'" Wedding told the New Zealand Herald.
Wedding said it took the doctor about five minutes to extract the cockroach.
"Every time she touched it I just imagined her squishing a cockroach into my eardrum, so I wasn't the perfect patient," he said.
Wedding said there was "instant relief" when the insect came out.
"I felt a pop as soon as the doctor pulled it away," he said.
He said the encounter left him with lingering feelings of disgust.
"It still gives me the creeps. We've got the fumigator coming in on Friday," he said.
A moose once bit my sister.
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ok, now I am going to have nightmares
Earplugs......................
Maybe if the old woman who swallowed a fly had gone to a gastroenterologist right away instead of self treating she would be alive today.
Same as having a stomach flu bug...no?
Actually bugs in the exterior ear canal is not that unusual.....first doc should have LOOKED in the ear. Every doc has an otoscope....
Was he blonde?
Did the cockroach loose weight?
Fumigator?
F the fumigator!
Neutron bomb time!
No, no. Yah Kiwi twit. That noise you have been hearing for 3 days was not a cocaroch trying to escape. It was just more verbiage from the idiot PM y’all elected to oversee your lose of gun rights and then imprisonment on her whims.
It was disgusting.
Reminds me of the Night Gallery episode “The Caterpillar”
Why was he trapping cockroaches in the first place?
I was hiking this summer and a wasp flew into my face, I instinctively batted it away and it then flew into my ear. It tried crawling forward and I could hear the beat of its wings as they tried to flap. I looked around for a small stick and ended up using my pliers on my Leatherman to remove it. It didn’t sting me but I was mentally preparing myself for the obscene pain.
I was stung on the hand by a hornet clearing some brush from my neighbor’s yard.
I cannot imagine the pain INSIDE AN EAR!!!!!.............
A buddy of mine left his beer on the hood of his car and went inside to go to the restroom. Came back out and got stung by a yellow jacket on the TONGUE when he took a swallow.
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