Friday, August 10, 2018

A Bug In My Ear


I read today about an umpire who had to stop the baseball game to have a moth removed from his ear. And my blogging friend Rick at Life 101 in his post titled The Eye Has It wrote about the small creature that invaded his eye.  Insects seem to be more aggressive all the time.

None of us are immune.  They can attack at any time.

I was sitting here at my computer a couple of nights ago. I heard a buzzing noise near my ear. What I thought was a moth flew against my ear.  It then crawled right in! Rather forcefully I might add.

I tried to wait patiently for it to back out. Do you know how hard it is to be patient when something has breached your ear canal?

Needless to say it did not back out. I tugged on my earlobe trying to do who knows what. It was still in there.

My son looked and could not see anything there but I could feel it moving. He wanted to take me to the doctor.

It was night time. Only emergency rooms are open at night. The nearest hospital is about 25 miles from here. It was not the best option. But I realized I might have to go.

I asked him to bring me a bottle of hydrogen peroxide. I poured some into my ear trying to float it out. I could not tell if it was working or not.

Suddenly I felt something crawling on the back of my neck. I had felt something crawling on the top of my ear when I was pouring the peroxide in. I was being attacked!

 My son saw something crawling on the front of my blouse. I brushed it away the best I could with an ear full of liquid.  It fell to the floor.

It was a black bug of some kind. My son grabbed a shoe and squashed it. 

I held a tissue near my ear to catch the liquid and whatever might be in it. There was only liquid. I put more peroxide in my ear to see if that would do it. I could no longer feel anything moving. I certainly did not want a dead or dying critter in my ear.

Again only liquid was expelled. I still felt nothing in my ear.

Apparently the squashed bug had been alone and very active. I am happy to report that there is no longer anything in my ear except what belongs. There are no more suicide bombing bugs. All is right with the world.

12 comments:

  1. Horrifying! Glad this had a happy ending.

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    1. Me too. That is something I never want to happen again.

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  2. Maybe we should all be wearing earmuffs!

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  3. Wow, that needs to be some kind of mini-movie before a horror film. Kinda like the way they used to show cartoons! Hey, that is a good idea! Now, will you play yourself in the mini-movie? You only have to let us have bug crawl around inside your ear! No, we will just FAKE it for the film, how about it?
    Honestly, hope THAT never happens to you again!

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    1. Maybe we could do it in Clay-mation or something. You do have a good idea though.

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  4. My husband had the same problem some time ago. I floated it out with oil. Enjoy your weekend, Diane

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    1. I suppose it is comforting to know I was not the only one.

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  5. When I started reading this, Emma, I wasn't quite prepared for hat was to come. At one point, I was sort of hoping it was just a fictionalized story, but then I knew that wasn't your style. Glad everything was resolved and ear muffs might not be a bad idea!

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    1. Everything that happened was the truth as you know. I hope it never happens again.

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  6. I almost swallowed a stink bug once when it was in a small paper cup. Good thing I felt it in my mouth before I gulped it down with the water.

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