A Cockroach And Its Egg Were Found In A Man’s Ear, And A Doctor Left It There
A Cockroach And Its Egg Were Found In A Man’s Ear, And A Doctor Left It There
At this point nobody should question whether or not bugs can crawl into a person’s orifices while sleeping, as there exists several credible news reports that describe this very occurrence. Recently a twenty five year old man from Florida reported to the hospital in order to have one of his ears examined. The man had been battling a roach infestation within his apartment unit for a long period of time before one of the little buggers found its way into his ear while he slept. The man, Blake Collins, claimed to have woken up one morning to an intense pain within his inner ear. Collins immediately, and correctly assumed that the pain was being caused by a cockroach. The pain was described as feeling like a Q-tip being forcefully shoved into his ear. Collins quickly realized that there was nothing that he could do to remove the roach from his ear. Normally Collins may not have known what was wrong, but given his own history with roaches in his apartment, he was sure that the culprit was a roach. As it turned out, Collins was right, but a roach was not the only thing that was found deep within his inner ear canal.
Once Collins reported to the emergency room, a doctor injected a lidocaine-containing solution into his ear with a syringe. Lidocaine is a numbing agent, so luckily removing the roach was not too painful. Collins claimed that the roach began to panic after the lidocaine solution was injected into his ear. Apparently, the roach began to frantically move its six legs in an attempt to dig itself out of his ear. After a few moments of struggling, Collins heard a faint squeal, and two minutes later, the roach died. At this point the doctor told Collins that he was safe from injury, but the doctor did not remove the roach; instead Collins was given instructions on how to remove the dead roach himself. However, before Collins was discharged, the doctor shared a piece of disturbing news with him–his inner ear also contained a roach egg. The doctor noticed the egg while examining Collins ear. The egg was located behind the roach. It is a good thing that Collins seeked medical assistance quickly, or else the egg may have developed into larvae while in his ear. Of course, the egg was no longer viable. Hopefully Collins managed to get both the roach as well as the egg out of his ear without much trouble.
Would you feel comfortable removing a dead roach and its egg from your ear on a doctor’s orders, but without medical assistance?