New Zealand: Man finds cockroach inside his ear days after blocked, wriggling sensation

A full-size cockroach has been extracted from a man's ear in New Zealand, after three days when he first felt a wriggling sensation. The man named Zane Wedding explained that he has originally mistaken the condition with water in his ear. According to The Guardian, on Friday morning, the Aucklander went swimming at a nearby pool and following that when he arrived home, he fell asleep on his couch that evening. He then woke up with a plugged ear and the sensation that something was squirming within his ear. 

On Saturday morning, he went to visit a doctor who ended up prescribing antibiotics and further suggested blowing a hairdryer into his ear to dry out the water which he thought was blocking the ear. He was also instructed that if the discomfort persisted, he should come back. The Aucklander stated that he became deaf in one ear and could not sleep. Highlighting the fact that the hairdryer was ineffective, he said, “Immediately after, it felt way worse,” The Guardian reported.  

'I think you have an insect in your ear': Doctor told New Zealand man

Furthermore, Wedding made an appointment with an ear clinic to visit a specialised doctor after two restless nights. Upon his medical examination, he was startled by the doctor's "Oh my God," as well as her subsequent statements, as per the Nzherald.co.nz. The doctor remarked after looking into his ear, “I think you have an insect in your ear”. The doctor worked for a few moments to extricate the insect. She told Wedding while bringing out the first part of a whole cockroach that all of the time she was in disbelief.  

As per the Nzherald.co.nz, Wedding stated that the idea of it made him literally sick. Further, a suction device was used to remove the rest of the bug. Describing the procedure of the bug extraction, Wedding said, “I felt (my eardrum) pop as it came away.” He even stated that the doctor who removed the cockroach had never seen anything like that before. Wedding added that the doctor was continuously repeating, “Oh my God”. The doctor even informed him that at the beginning she assumed that he had a tumour. In addition to this, Zane Wedding has given the bug to the doctor as a souvenir as she had never previously extracted a bug, The Guardian reported. 

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