dean moriaty
09-05-2005, 03:46 PM
i shall now tell ye the tale of the terrible moth incident which befell me two summers ago!!!
i was on holiday in scotland with my parents on an island called Arran that's preety small (30 miles by 16 or something) and only has a really small hospital, all the urgent cases get airlifted to the mainland. anyways the holiday was going swimmingly until in the early hours of one morning i woke with the most damn awful pain ever in my ear. it was like someone was sawing at my ear drum for a few seconds and then they'd stop for a while the start again. i assumed some fromof infernal beast had entered my eardrum and sought to extract it by wildly shaking my head and banging it with my fist. this was excrutiating. not just cause it hurt a LOT but also cause people are programmed to go schiz if anything big gets in your ears or your eyes as some sort of defence mechanism.
anyways after a while my parents came out to see why i was whimpering and i got my dad to have a look in my ear to see what he could see. which was nothing. then i grabbed a torch but he still couldn't see anything. by this point my family were pretty worried cause i never bother about pain normally and i agreed to let them call the hospital. it was shut! thats how small the place is. anyway a nurse woke up and said to go so we drove the 5 miles or so there all the time i was getting occasional bouts of intense pain because this things wing were actually rubbing against my ear drum. when we got there they had a look and even they couldn't really see anything but they washed my ear out with warm water and eventually it was drowned and stopped moving (huge relief) and eventually came out. i got them to put it in a sample tube and i've kept it. anyway here's a picture with my finger in it so you can gauge the size.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a216/deanmoriaty/mothandface004.jpg
when we eventually got back to the cottage we were staying in at like 4am my mum and sister had to stuff cotton wool in their ears cause they were really scared it would happen to them.
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i was on holiday in scotland with my parents on an island called Arran that's preety small (30 miles by 16 or something) and only has a really small hospital, all the urgent cases get airlifted to the mainland. anyways the holiday was going swimmingly until in the early hours of one morning i woke with the most damn awful pain ever in my ear. it was like someone was sawing at my ear drum for a few seconds and then they'd stop for a while the start again. i assumed some fromof infernal beast had entered my eardrum and sought to extract it by wildly shaking my head and banging it with my fist. this was excrutiating. not just cause it hurt a LOT but also cause people are programmed to go schiz if anything big gets in your ears or your eyes as some sort of defence mechanism.
anyways after a while my parents came out to see why i was whimpering and i got my dad to have a look in my ear to see what he could see. which was nothing. then i grabbed a torch but he still couldn't see anything. by this point my family were pretty worried cause i never bother about pain normally and i agreed to let them call the hospital. it was shut! thats how small the place is. anyway a nurse woke up and said to go so we drove the 5 miles or so there all the time i was getting occasional bouts of intense pain because this things wing were actually rubbing against my ear drum. when we got there they had a look and even they couldn't really see anything but they washed my ear out with warm water and eventually it was drowned and stopped moving (huge relief) and eventually came out. i got them to put it in a sample tube and i've kept it. anyway here's a picture with my finger in it so you can gauge the size.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a216/deanmoriaty/mothandface004.jpg
when we eventually got back to the cottage we were staying in at like 4am my mum and sister had to stuff cotton wool in their ears cause they were really scared it would happen to them.
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