Getting water trapped in your ears after going for a swim (or even taking a shower) is pretty normal . But when that water stays there for days, you might have a problem.
Especially if that “water” ends up not being water at all.
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40 year-old Zane Wedding went for a swim.
Wedding swam in a pool in Auckland, New Zealand, Boing Boing writes . Afterwards, he had some water in his ear.
At first, he thought nothing of it.
After all, he’d just been swimming. Of course there would be some water in his ear. But that would go away eventually, right?
Wrong.
It was still bothering him by the next day, so he decided to visit his doctor. The doctor told him to dry his ear with a hair dryer.
But that didn’t work.
And none of the classic home remedies for getting water out of your ear worked, either. This water in his ear was pretty persistent.
So, Wedding decided to visit another doctor.
This time, he visited an ear, nose, and throat doctor. It had been a few days at this point, and Wedding couldn’t get that water out of his ear.
And as it turns out, it wasn’t water at all.
The doctor inspected his ear and found a cockroach. The roach somehow got in his ear while he was swimming, and just stayed there.
Don’t worry, he got it out.
But just the fact that there was a whole cockroach in Wedding’s ear is, well, more than upsetting, to say the least. It was dead when the doctor found it, but probably started alive.
In hindsight, it all made sense.
Wedding had been wondering why the water in his ear was moving around, even when he wasn’t. The fact that it was a bug makes that make more sense.
And of course, he was horrified.
Don’t forget, he tried all those home remedies, including taking a hair dryer to his ear. That’s more than enough to make you shudder.
h/t Boing Boing
