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Noise in woman’s head turns out to be maggots eating her brain
deathandtaxesmag.com ^ | 2/17/14 | Joe Veix

Posted on 02/19/2014 7:12:56 PM PST by Straight Vermonter

A British woman returned from a trip to Peru hearing scratching noises inside her head. Thinking she had an ear infection, she went to the hospital, where a consultant found something much worse: Maggots were digging through a small hole in her ear-canal, eating her flesh.

“I was very scared,” said Rochelle Harris, “Were they in my brain?”

Probably, Mrs. Harris. The maggots have you now.

Before she got her ear checked, she had more than a few clues that there was something more serious than an ear infection happening. During her trip, she remembered dislodging a fly from her ear. She was also getting regular headaches and pains on one side of her face, and she’d occasionally wake up with her pillow wet from a liquid that leaked from her ear.

The doctors first attempted to flush out the maggots with olive oil. After that failed, they resorted to surgery, removing a total of eight maggots from her head. Harris explains,

“It was the longest few hours that I have ever had to wait… I could still feel them and hear them and knowing what those scratching sounds were, and knowing what that wriggling feeling was, that just made it all the worse.”

That’s just something a human whose brain is now controlled by writhing maggots would say.

H/t NBC News


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To: Straight Vermonter

There was a great story from the old tv show “Night Gallery” about “earwigs”.

from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660818/reviews

However, one of the true gems that came out of Night Gallery (I think I can count them all on the fingers of one hand) is a second season screenplay called “The Caterpillar” starring Laurence Harvey. In fact, I’d venture to opine that this is the best remembered episode of Night Gallery, for its sheer horror...

To be brief, a nasty little carnivorous insect crawls into Laurence Harvey’s ear as he sleeps; it proceeds to burrow through his middle and inner ears and into his brain. Harvey is tied down to his bed and writhes in screaming, tortured, insane agony for days, as the bug EATS its way through his head and emerges through his other ear. The attending physician is amazed -— he’s never even heard of anyone surviving this ordeal, and yet Laurence Harvey somehow manages to pull through it. Until, that is, the earwig is identified as a female, and the doctor solemnly informs Harvey that the thing apparently LAID EGGS on its way through his brains. ARRRRGGHHHH!!!

I mean, if THIS episode of Night Gallery doesn’t make you squirm, nothing will. It’s creepy, it’s sick, it’s horrifying... After viewing it, you WILL inspect your bed for insects, you WILL wear earplugs for a few nights, and you WILL NEVER forget this episode (even if you see it only once).


61 posted on 02/19/2014 7:55:00 PM PST by staytrue
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To: cripplecreek

I think cops used to use different types of maggots to figure how long a body had been rotting... they all eat flesh at a different stage of decomposition.


62 posted on 02/19/2014 7:55:08 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: sickoflibs

read post 61


63 posted on 02/19/2014 7:56:14 PM PST by staytrue
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To: bandleader

obama picked up his maggots in Indokneeshuh and Chicago!


64 posted on 02/19/2014 7:56:25 PM PST by MeshugeMikey (Where are The Weapons Of Mass Global Climate Change Destruction?)
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To: Brandonmark

65 posted on 02/19/2014 7:58:53 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: lavaroise

“I think cops used to use different types of maggots “
That’s the basis for forensic entomology.


66 posted on 02/19/2014 8:03:02 PM PST by DBrow
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To: GeronL; Salamander; PJ-Comix; Revolting cat!; Tax-chick
"on the bright side it could
be a conversation starter..."
true..Ok! I'll bite d:-D; Did you know, insects/larvae can be upwards to 70% protein..
depending on age (succulent)..and they're not bait anymore in many a metro. areas
(left coast/NYC iirc), they have insect eating parties/dinners. In Africa/Asia it's very
common, 'Bon Apatite, Folks..

67 posted on 02/19/2014 8:03:52 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: rdl6989
I was thinking about an after dinner snack, until I read this. Thanks, I’m trying to stay on my diet and this helped.

If you start to waiver, read the Hot Pockets thread until you get through the inverted boneless pork rectum discussion.

68 posted on 02/19/2014 8:08:11 PM PST by Scoutmaster (I'd rather be at Philmont)
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To: Salamander
The Sound That's Made By Worms
69 posted on 02/19/2014 8:09:23 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: moose07

Our little calico cat that my wife found by the side of the road had warbles. I think they are the cow type. Huge lumps on her neck. She was the worst smelling living animal that I have ever encountered.


70 posted on 02/19/2014 8:11:56 PM PST by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: ExpatGator

Poor little thing.
Probably Bot fly, Cuterebra.


71 posted on 02/19/2014 8:20:37 PM PST by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

She must have been a dead head because maggots only eat dead tissue.


72 posted on 02/19/2014 8:28:31 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Straight Vermonter
This is he stuff of nightmares.

You said it!!

73 posted on 02/19/2014 8:30:30 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: bandleader
“When can we get Obongo to vacation in Peru???????????????”

The maggots would die, they can't exist in a vacuum!

74 posted on 02/19/2014 8:33:57 PM PST by dalereed
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To: moose07

Well, she is fine now! She is the most strikingly pretty cat. Her fur is luxurious. Her attitude is the sweetest for a female cat I have ever known. She is my little shadow when I am home.


75 posted on 02/19/2014 8:38:24 PM PST by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: woofie

Seems like there was an episode on TV about
something like this , it was called The Earwig?
Maybe Twilight Zone. Not sure.
Also remember an early Life or Look magazine with
an article about some guy coming back from South
American who had a BIG moth emerge from a swelling
on his arm.

Ick. I remember a conversation with someone in a
crowded resturant, she had just returned from Colombia
or some where in South America and she was saying,
“Hey man! Fraking mushrooms were growing out of my SKIN. Fraking MUSHROOMS MAN!!!”

Everybody moved away from us in the resturant.


76 posted on 02/19/2014 8:41:49 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: who knows what evil?

Aaaaacccccckkkkkkk....no snack for me now.


77 posted on 02/19/2014 8:43:07 PM PST by Conservative4Ever (waiting for my Magic 8 ball to give me an answer)
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To: staytrue

Hey, that’s the one!
Pretty scary.


78 posted on 02/19/2014 8:43:23 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Carry_Okie

RIP Eddie Hazel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGGVy4RkUs0


79 posted on 02/19/2014 8:47:23 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: woofie


Wasn’t there a movie called “Crunching Brain Maggots on Mars” or something like that?

Yep. It was narrated by Tom Hanks and played at the 2012 Democrat National Convention.


80 posted on 02/19/2014 8:47:33 PM PST by Rastus
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