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29 December 2007

I heard the muffled sound of skittering insect feet →[More:]
I sat back on the couch, still as a rock. "What IS that?"

I took off my headset, my apartment was silent as night. "There it is again!"

But it wasn't coming from inside the room. "It's INSIDE MY EAR!!"

I quickly went across the hall, to the bathroom, for a q-tip. But with each step, I heard it again, "Now it's rolling around. AAHHHHAHAHAHAHHAHA!"

Okay, this is when I took a deep breath and calmed myself. Hysteria isn't helpful, especially if I would have to drive myself to the hospital with a bug in my ear, EATING ITS WAY INTO MY BRAIN!

I slowly insert the cotton swab into my right ear. Nothing. A little deeper and "OHHHH I think I touched it! Ewwwwwww." Then the sound of little cracking noises and something brushing along the inside of my ear. “Get it out!”

And then there was a loud pop.

Seems I just had a little water in my ear. I'm sooo not gonna get any sleep tonight.

post by: MonkeyButter at: 21:53 | 9 comments

I get the occasional muscle spasm inside my ear somewhere. It feels and sounds like a butterfly beating its wings inside my head. It is very unnerving.

Hope that helped.

posted by deadcowdan 29 December | 22:19

I get the ear flutter, too. I'm told it's the little bones vibrating the ear drum. Wakes me up, sometimes, sounding like loud drums in the distance.

posted by MonkeyButter 29 December | 23:03

It's not bones, dude.

posted by BoringPostcards 29 December | 23:23

Well, crap... non-expired link.

posted by BoringPostcards 29 December | 23:37

Oh my god you had me on the edge of my seat up until the very end.

posted by CitrusFreak12 30 December | 00:30

This reminded me of a horror story I read as a kid where a bug crawled into this guy's ear and managed to work its way across his head to the other side where it came out of his other ear.

Everyone thought he'd be ok, until the last paragraph of the story where one of the doctors realised that the insect was a female and she had laid eggs ...

posted by essexjan 30 December | 04:46

Thanks for the nightmare material, y'all.

posted by chewatadistance 30 December | 10:34

THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE! GET OUT NOW!

Seriously, though.... when I get crap in my ear, or water, or whatever, I lay down on one side and put a few drops of rubbing alcohol in my ear. If it's both ears, after a few minutes I roll over and do the other one. I let the alchol drain into a tissue when I tip my head. The alcohol displaces the water and dries up any wax in there, then it evaporates and your ear is clear.

posted by Doohickie 30 December | 15:15

I saw a show about real ER stories once where a kid had a bug in his ear. The doctor that had to treat the kid was terrified of bugs. It was amusing. I also saw an episode of the same show where a homeless woman had cut her skin and put earthworms in herself. There were like 30 of them and she had named all of them. That was disturbing.

posted by youngergirl44 30 December | 19:18

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