02 October 2007

ants everywhere part 2

a red ant crawling and biting...INSIDE MY EAR!

that's how i woke up this morning.

i was in tears because i can't get the ant off my ear and the pain was excruciating. i poured some baby oil in my ear so that the ant will be killed but it didn't work...panicking, my parents rushed me to the nearest hospital (iloilo mission hospital) but surprise, surprise, they had to refer us to another hospital because they don't have the necessary equipment for EENT cases...WTF!

the whole time i can feel the ant moving and biting. this would be the first on my list of painful ways to die.

on the second hospital, the resident had to flush/irrigate my ear until the damn ant came off. now i'm temporarily and partially deaf on my left ear.

moral of the story:

don't rush to iloilo mission hospital for EENT cases. go to st. paul's hospital instead. and oh, put on some earplugs before you sleep so that insects won't crawl inside your ears. in case it happens, pull your pinna(upper ear segment) up and back for adults; for kids aged less than 8, pull pinna down and back, and then pour enough baby oil to kill the insect.


i really really HATE red ants right now.

11 comments:

dreyers said...

ouch! ouch. ouch. never happened to me but i can imagine... on second thought, i can't imagine it.

pero ley, i've heard of a worse case: cockroach inside the ear!!! i mean, not just painful but disgusting! hehehe.

sorry, i don't mean to point at the silver lining...

chocoliya said...

cockroach and centipede are some of the insects they took out from the ears of other patients according to the resident

ant pa lg gni d ko na kaya ayhan pa na cla?? *shudder*

M said...

ohno!!!! liyatot! ahay ah. what a bad experience. pero kung tanga pa na, mapakamatay na lang ko siguro...

Anonymous said...

Eek? I wonder what your Lola is trying to tell you this time. He he he. Basi ga dinungol ka da kag gusto ka lang nya guripaton. :P Ouchhh...

sarski said...

cockroach inside the ear?! centipede?!?!?!? waaah! i wonder what's with our ear wax that they find delectable...

pero ley, red ants biting inside your ear is torture especially if there's a lot of them. gena's right, i wonder what did you do this time..hehehe!

chocoliya said...

good girl ko ya always =)

meaning the red ant was not my lola. guripat was not her style hehehe

M said...

hey, good girl. do you want to be a bad girl in boracay the week of nov. 12 thereabouts? who else are you in touch with sa ilo2?

chocoliya said...

whoa, bora sa nov 12? i can't commit pa sbg wafs kay mapa mla ko sa oct, depende lg kung may funds pko hehehe

how many days and nights? gusto ko man mag last hurrah before ko mag volunteer duty sa hosp hehehe

hrmmm....c arly(PGI sa st. pauls), paolo, marc dean(aklan), jeffrey, ryan ang pwede ko ma contact

M said...

woohoo! go sago. sige ah. di man necessarily nov. 12 basta daw sa mga amo na nga petsa. may kilala ko nga japayuki nga basi ara sa ilo2 that time. sige, puwede mo sila ma-contact and ask?

chocoliya said...

sure sure! =)

japayuki? rocs?!

M said...

ley,
deal. # of days depends on # of fds we have. hehe. will contact you when i get to las islas filipinas. partayyyyy!!!!