Bug in my ear!!

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I'm so sorry! At least you didn't experience the actual sensations though, they were truly disturbing and I'm going to be wearing a hat to bed for a while until I can forget what they were like because it's two days on and I'm still completely freaked out.



Unfortunately he was already dead upon exit of my ear. The only way I could get him out was with a big glob of baby oil. Had there been an easier, less deadly way, I would have done it because I never kill insects if I can help it. Even if they've invaded my space in an unforgivable way.

True....I hope you get over it. . The good thing is you always do get over these things. And remember, the probability of that happening again is VERY unlikely.

I'm pleased to hear that. There are far too many "squishers" these days who just can't respect the role arthropods play in the great web of ecology.

Or circle of life, if you prefer.

I like to refer those "squishers" to the strangest video ever but one that has a great message:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms2klX-puUU[/youtube]
It doesn't necessarily change their minds, but I wish it would.

A nurse who used to come to our home when I was a child to give me injections told us a story about a boy into whose ear a bug crawled and he had to have it removed by a doctor.

When I spent nights on my grandparents' farm, an extremaly important element of the preparations for every night was my taking some precautions against cockroaches that could be found by me the next morning in my ears or other orifices of my body:

- wearing tight underwear
- having one of my ears pressed against the pillow and the other one covered with the quilt

Their house SWARMED with cockroaches. It was one of my nightmares that having slept in there I could be forced to go to a doctor to have an insect pulled out by them the next morning.

Well Samwise, that certainly was different. As something of an animation connoisseur, I am impressed. thanks for finding that.

not fun

Samwise video: hahaha the spider had a knife

I've heard that earwigs crawl into your ears, when you're sleeping. Is that true?

The myth is that they crawl into your ear, enter your brain, latch on with their pinchers, and eat it. Of course that's not true. The probability of an earwig entering your ear is a lot less likely, because they live mostly outside, don't they?

Groooooossssssss!! !! ! -shudder-

I'm sorry you had to go through that. That's awful.