& it stirs a small memory: had read a poem by the writer Iain Sinclair, “Kristallnacht” (to be found in his selected poems, flesh eggs & scalp metal–great title) with a particularly unnerving quotation concerning the painter Soutine as an epigraph: “when Soutine finally consulted an ear specialist about this terrible earache, in the canal of the painter’s ear the doctor discovered, not an abscess but a nest of bedbugs”. So, ok, now you can worry not just about cockroaches and earwigs but bedbugs (and not forgetting those icky dust mites). --N
And * my * family wonders why I have insomnia problems!! I can scarcely think of sleep when I have to keep flailing my arms around fending off attacks from the insect world! eeewwwyuck! :mad:
When I was living in Minnesota, I knew
a woman who got a woodtick in her ear.
It attached itself and started sucking
blood. By the time she knew it was in
there, she had to have a specialist
do minor surgery to get it out!
My dad, working the ER in a small clinic, once saw a teacher who came in after complaining of hearing loss and a strange “fluttering sensation.” Upon further examination, Dad discovered that the woman had a moth in her ear - it had flown in and gotten stuck, and was attempting to fly back out.
All together now…Eeeeeew. :eek:
Christopher Robin Hood - he steals from the rich and gives to the Pooh.
when i was a young dan (8 or so), a mosquito flew into my ear and started slurping. damned if i know what it was doing in there, but blood started pouring out of my ear, and as you said, it HURT. i can only imagine how blindingly awful it must have been to have something burrowing in your ear; that stupid little vampire was quite enough for me.
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