Eeeeeewwwwwwwww!!!
February 10, 2017 4:00 PM Subscribe
A woman who lives near Chennai, India, recently woke up with a severe headache and labored breathing. She went to the hospital, and they performed an endoscopy to determine the cause: A cockroach had entered her nasal cavity and burrowed into her skull.
Yeah that's exactly what I needed for the upcoming weekend...
posted by Namlit at 4:08 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Namlit at 4:08 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
Nooooooooooo. No.
posted by limeonaire at 4:08 PM on February 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by limeonaire at 4:08 PM on February 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
Chennai, India is my hometown. Something to fuel nightmares when I make a trip back.
posted by peacheater at 4:10 PM on February 10, 2017 [10 favorites]
posted by peacheater at 4:10 PM on February 10, 2017 [10 favorites]
Nope
posted by chaoticgood at 4:11 PM on February 10, 2017
posted by chaoticgood at 4:11 PM on February 10, 2017
A cockroach had entered her nasal cavity
Nope. Thanks. Oh, okay, I'll click...
posted by hal9k at 4:12 PM on February 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
Nope. Thanks. Oh, okay, I'll click...
posted by hal9k at 4:12 PM on February 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
This didn't happen, i'm sure.
posted by Zerowensboring at 4:14 PM on February 10, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by Zerowensboring at 4:14 PM on February 10, 2017 [4 favorites]
AS IF EVERYTHING ISN'T ALREADY A WALKING NIGHTMARE, JESUS FUCK 2017
posted by Space Kitty at 4:16 PM on February 10, 2017 [27 favorites]
posted by Space Kitty at 4:16 PM on February 10, 2017 [27 favorites]
I love bugs (even cockroaches! look at this purdy lil guy!) and I'm 100% cool with bizarre medical issues but even I am not sure I needed this particular brand of nightmare fuel.
posted by byanyothername at 4:22 PM on February 10, 2017
posted by byanyothername at 4:22 PM on February 10, 2017
what the fuck op
posted by Kitteh at 4:32 PM on February 10, 2017 [19 favorites]
posted by Kitteh at 4:32 PM on February 10, 2017 [19 favorites]
so that's what's happened to the president
posted by pyramid termite at 4:38 PM on February 10, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by pyramid termite at 4:38 PM on February 10, 2017 [6 favorites]
She also said there's no reliable way to prevent a cockroach from crawling into your skull while you sleep, so good luck sleeping ever again.
Jesus H. Christ. We can put a man on the Moon but we can't solve THIS?!
posted by brundlefly at 4:40 PM on February 10, 2017 [16 favorites]
Jesus H. Christ. We can put a man on the Moon but we can't solve THIS?!
posted by brundlefly at 4:40 PM on February 10, 2017 [16 favorites]
The media could not be playedposted by Pinback at 4:46 PM on February 10, 2017 [5 favorites]
We have a brand new sidebar widget that will let people block election posts, but I have to wait for a bunch more posts to be made before this moves below the bottom of my browser window. Thanks, 2017.
posted by hippybear at 4:48 PM on February 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 4:48 PM on February 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
This is not normal
posted by naju at 4:48 PM on February 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by naju at 4:48 PM on February 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
Is this supposed to be some kind of metaphor?
posted by Omon Ra at 4:53 PM on February 10, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by Omon Ra at 4:53 PM on February 10, 2017 [5 favorites]
so that's what's happened to the president
If you haven't already, you should watch Braindead.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 5:03 PM on February 10, 2017 [6 favorites]
If you haven't already, you should watch Braindead.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 5:03 PM on February 10, 2017 [6 favorites]
Here I was concerned I might fall asleep tonight.
posted by datawrangler at 5:09 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by datawrangler at 5:09 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
To play devil's advocate here for a second...
YEP
posted by schmod at 5:10 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
YEP
posted by schmod at 5:10 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
I see patients with headaches and labored breathing all the time. Intracranial cockroaches would not typically enter into my thought process for a patient with those symptoms. People do come in occasionally with live cockroaches in their ears, though. Fun to remove!
posted by killdevil at 5:31 PM on February 10, 2017 [7 favorites]
posted by killdevil at 5:31 PM on February 10, 2017 [7 favorites]
MetaFilter: Live cockroaches in their ears: fun to remove!
posted by hippybear at 5:33 PM on February 10, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 5:33 PM on February 10, 2017 [6 favorites]
So while we're on the subject of gross brain organisms: feast your eyes on the reason why Jews and Muslims agree that pork is not to be enjoyed raw (or at all).
posted by killdevil at 5:40 PM on February 10, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by killdevil at 5:40 PM on February 10, 2017 [4 favorites]
Pleasant dreams!
posted by randomkeystrike at 5:53 PM on February 10, 2017
posted by randomkeystrike at 5:53 PM on February 10, 2017
This is fine.
posted by mosk at 5:53 PM on February 10, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by mosk at 5:53 PM on February 10, 2017 [4 favorites]
What's the polar opposite of "thanks for posting?"
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 5:55 PM on February 10, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 5:55 PM on February 10, 2017 [5 favorites]
New election thread?
posted by sebastienbailard at 5:58 PM on February 10, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by sebastienbailard at 5:58 PM on February 10, 2017 [6 favorites]
Finally, something worth masturbating to.
posted by dr_dank at 6:00 PM on February 10, 2017 [19 favorites]
posted by dr_dank at 6:00 PM on February 10, 2017 [19 favorites]
Commander Chekhov approves this message.
posted by Big Al 8000 at 6:02 PM on February 10, 2017 [11 favorites]
posted by Big Al 8000 at 6:02 PM on February 10, 2017 [11 favorites]
*thinks*
Don't click on the link.
Don't click on the link.
Don't click on the link.
*clicks on link*
Oh, goddammit.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:04 PM on February 10, 2017 [4 favorites]
Don't click on the link.
Don't click on the link.
Don't click on the link.
*clicks on link*
Oh, goddammit.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:04 PM on February 10, 2017 [4 favorites]
great, first “The Waldo Moment”, now “Hated in the Nation”, which episode of Black Mirror is going to intrude into reality next
posted by reluctant early bird at 6:08 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by reluctant early bird at 6:08 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
This post may be setting new records for ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO CLICK THESE LINKS.
posted by thomas j wise at 6:16 PM on February 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by thomas j wise at 6:16 PM on February 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
Man, bugs can just go to hell.
posted by Greg_Ace at 6:16 PM on February 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 6:16 PM on February 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
Also:
The media could not be played
I'm almost certain that's not true. I bet it's been played numerous times.
posted by Greg_Ace at 6:18 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
The media could not be played
I'm almost certain that's not true. I bet it's been played numerous times.
posted by Greg_Ace at 6:18 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
They could have skipped the endoscopy, and just ordered her to shoot captain kirk
posted by cacofonie at 6:21 PM on February 10, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by cacofonie at 6:21 PM on February 10, 2017 [6 favorites]
I'm exercising my my god-given discretion right now.
posted by cjorgensen at 6:23 PM on February 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by cjorgensen at 6:23 PM on February 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
Mods are asleep, post brain tapeworms
posted by killdevil at 6:38 PM on February 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by killdevil at 6:38 PM on February 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
post brain tapeworms
I can't tell if that's a proposal, or a statement of the reason the mods are sleeping.
posted by Greg_Ace at 6:58 PM on February 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
I can't tell if that's a proposal, or a statement of the reason the mods are sleeping.
posted by Greg_Ace at 6:58 PM on February 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
Yes there is video
Obviously they mean "noooooooo! There is video!"
posted by Joey Michaels at 7:20 PM on February 10, 2017
Obviously they mean "noooooooo! There is video!"
posted by Joey Michaels at 7:20 PM on February 10, 2017
Years ago we met up with a bunch of American dudes in Costa Rica. College aged bros. They told us this story. In Puerto Limon they arrived and asked a local about where they could get a room very late at night. He told them there were hotels by the bus station. So they headed there. One of them was really afraid of bugs. The others started telling roach stories. They crawl in your ears, up your nose, etc. He started to get upset. They find a hotel. They get a room and head up stairs. They're all standing in front of the door when one of them opens it up. It's dark. He reaches into the door and flicks the switch. Bright light and hundreds if not thousands of roaches scurry away to find darkness. The bug phobic guy is standing there shaking while furiously shoving Kleenex up his nose and into his ears. As we met them after this event we assumed they got a good nights sleep. A few days later, down the coast, I pulled on my pants after a shower and chills ran up my spine as a very large roach crawled up my butt crack and then leaped out of the back of my pants. Roaches...
posted by njohnson23 at 7:22 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by njohnson23 at 7:22 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
Jesus H. Christ. We can put a man on the Moon but we can't solve THIS?!
Sabrina in Raising Hope solved it.
posted by Crystalinne at 7:26 PM on February 10, 2017
Sabrina in Raising Hope solved it.
posted by Crystalinne at 7:26 PM on February 10, 2017
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaa
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasaaaaaaaa
posted by wotsac at 7:31 PM on February 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Aaaaaaaaaaaaa
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasaaaaaaaa
posted by wotsac at 7:31 PM on February 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
great, first “The Waldo Moment”, now “Hated in the Nation”, which episode of Black Mirror is going to intrude into reality next
How could you have missed "The National Anthem"?
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 7:45 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
How could you have missed "The National Anthem"?
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 7:45 PM on February 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
... I'm moving to Nunavut/Nunavik. I don't mind cold, I mind roaches, and the Inuits always looked like cool folks. I hear there's a dive club in Kuujjuaq, that's all I need.
posted by coust at 7:56 PM on February 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by coust at 7:56 PM on February 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
It's a little known but gruesome fact that pretty much all of us that live anywhere but the poles get at least 150 billion cockroaches, hermit spiders, nerve beetles, and lidless-eye mites burrowed into our brain at all hours of every day.
posted by Stonestock Relentless at 8:15 PM on February 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Stonestock Relentless at 8:15 PM on February 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
This kills the cockroach.
posted by lostburner at 9:07 PM on February 10, 2017
posted by lostburner at 9:07 PM on February 10, 2017
"Jesus H. Christ. We can put a man on the Moon but we can't solve THIS?!"
The Russians just used a pencil.
posted by komara at 9:46 PM on February 10, 2017 [6 favorites]
The Russians just used a pencil.
posted by komara at 9:46 PM on February 10, 2017 [6 favorites]
2:41 AM. "Can't sleep. Maybe I will see what's on MetaFilter."
2:46 AM:
posted by ricochet biscuit at 11:47 PM on February 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
2:46 AM:
The scariest part of all this? Shankar said there's really no good way to prevent this from happening."Okay, then. I guess I am up now."
posted by ricochet biscuit at 11:47 PM on February 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
I had just about gotten over that woman with the spider in her ear. Thanks.
posted by greermahoney at 12:30 AM on February 11, 2017
posted by greermahoney at 12:30 AM on February 11, 2017
Entrepreneurial opportunity: tiny nose screens.
posted by Devils Rancher at 1:06 AM on February 11, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by Devils Rancher at 1:06 AM on February 11, 2017 [5 favorites]
Shankar said. "It was quite unusual."
Ok, relaaaax everyone.
posted by Namlit at 1:33 AM on February 11, 2017
Ok, relaaaax everyone.
posted by Namlit at 1:33 AM on February 11, 2017
Just *no*: closest I've come to this was waking up early one morning with a noticeable pressure on one of my eyes. I reached up and felt something hard and cold there, and after several seconds I realised that it was actually a millipede: a millipede busily trying to burrow its way behind my eyeball(*). Yeesh...
(*) In the early 1980s there was a virtual plague of millipedes in the Adelaide Hills region. Our old house would have literally thousands of the black horrors crawling over every surface every night: my father undertook the largely symbolic (and Sisyphean) task of collecting a large jar full of the beasts before going to bed each night, and drowning them so as to avoid the acrid smell they emit when crushed or frightened.
posted by pjm at 5:00 AM on February 11, 2017 [3 favorites]
(*) In the early 1980s there was a virtual plague of millipedes in the Adelaide Hills region. Our old house would have literally thousands of the black horrors crawling over every surface every night: my father undertook the largely symbolic (and Sisyphean) task of collecting a large jar full of the beasts before going to bed each night, and drowning them so as to avoid the acrid smell they emit when crushed or frightened.
posted by pjm at 5:00 AM on February 11, 2017 [3 favorites]
Once, I woke up with a june bug in my ear. It didn't started buzzing until I tried getting it out. I worry that is just the one I noticed.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 5:52 AM on February 11, 2017
posted by Mr. Yuck at 5:52 AM on February 11, 2017
Welcome to Joe's Apartment
It's our apartment too
posted by ostranenie at 6:19 AM on February 11, 2017
It's our apartment too
posted by ostranenie at 6:19 AM on February 11, 2017
Explore the amazing world of Animals All Around Us, with Jack Handy:
You might suppose that at least when you climb into bed you would be free of the animal kingdom. But suppose again. There, too, they are watching us, crawling on us, waiting for the opportunity to bite. These are our cats, swarming over us throughout the night.
posted by Caxton1476 at 6:31 AM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
You might suppose that at least when you climb into bed you would be free of the animal kingdom. But suppose again. There, too, they are watching us, crawling on us, waiting for the opportunity to bite. These are our cats, swarming over us throughout the night.
posted by Caxton1476 at 6:31 AM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
If I was told that a bloody cock roach had burrowed into my brain, I'd lose the rest of my mind. I would never feel clean again.
posted by james33 at 7:38 AM on February 11, 2017
posted by james33 at 7:38 AM on February 11, 2017
wow I didn't know you could run out of nopes on metafilter
posted by oulipian at 7:50 AM on February 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by oulipian at 7:50 AM on February 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
"Jesus H. Christ. We can put a man on the Moon but we can't solve THIS?!"
Get a cat.
posted by srboisvert at 8:34 AM on February 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
Get a cat.
posted by srboisvert at 8:34 AM on February 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
Read it.
Regretted it.
Sitting here covering my nostrils.
Ewwwwww!!!
posted by KleenexMakesaVeryGoodHat at 10:32 AM on February 11, 2017
Regretted it.
Sitting here covering my nostrils.
Ewwwwww!!!
posted by KleenexMakesaVeryGoodHat at 10:32 AM on February 11, 2017
No.
posted by The_Auditor at 10:34 AM on February 11, 2017
posted by The_Auditor at 10:34 AM on February 11, 2017
Twice in my life I have gotten bugs stuck in my ear and had to go to the ER to had them removed. Neither of them was a roach, but I can totally believe this might happen to me some day.
posted by OrangeDisk at 12:06 PM on February 11, 2017
posted by OrangeDisk at 12:06 PM on February 11, 2017
You could always take the drastic step of sleeping with a plastic bag over your head, tied tightly at the neck.
[joke -- please don't]
posted by bad grammar at 12:43 PM on February 11, 2017
[joke -- please don't]
posted by bad grammar at 12:43 PM on February 11, 2017
Bad bad grammar! Bad!
posted by hippybear at 12:53 PM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by hippybear at 12:53 PM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
Welp. Now I've got a conversation-ending answer to the "when are you moving back to New Orleans?" question.
posted by asperity at 2:13 PM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by asperity at 2:13 PM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
One option would be to move somewhere where the cockroaches are too large to fit in a human nostril.
posted by acb at 3:19 PM on February 11, 2017 [7 favorites]
posted by acb at 3:19 PM on February 11, 2017 [7 favorites]
I got scabies once, living in a cheap studio in the Tenderloin in San Francisco. Basically worms burrow into your wrists and ankles and breed. Even though I couldn't feel it, that didn't stop the creepy crawlies I spent hours imagining.
posted by bendy at 4:53 PM on February 11, 2017
posted by bendy at 4:53 PM on February 11, 2017
You know, some people pass away and we are not sure why -- autopsies used to be performed routinely to tell us why, less so. Doubt we are missing "cockroach head" -- but curious what the internet would be able to do if we really tried to explain causes of mortality precisely.
posted by skepticallypleased at 5:26 PM on February 11, 2017
posted by skepticallypleased at 5:26 PM on February 11, 2017
That is one determined, hungry cockroach.
posted by not_on_display at 6:23 PM on February 11, 2017
posted by not_on_display at 6:23 PM on February 11, 2017
I've had a phobia of cockroaches since one tried to fly into my mouth (while I was screaming in horror at it) when I was a child. This is even worse.
posted by Alnedra at 7:33 PM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Alnedra at 7:33 PM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
Get a cat.
Works well to control cockroaches, but what they don't tell you is that roaches carry stomach worms and tapeworms that infect the cat.
Don't ask me how I found this out.
Please, don't.
The HORROR!
posted by BlueHorse at 8:02 PM on February 11, 2017
Works well to control cockroaches, but what they don't tell you is that roaches carry stomach worms and tapeworms that infect the cat.
Don't ask me how I found this out.
Please, don't.
The HORROR!
posted by BlueHorse at 8:02 PM on February 11, 2017
This. This is why there is no god.
posted by dazed_one at 9:38 PM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by dazed_one at 9:38 PM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
OK, you did it. You finally did it. You got me to update my long broken MeFi NOPE! greasemonkey/tampermonkey script so it works again. I hope you're happy.
Only tested on TamperMonkey for Chrome. Feel free to memail me bugs.
posted by rouftop at 10:25 PM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
Only tested on TamperMonkey for Chrome. Feel free to memail me bugs.
posted by rouftop at 10:25 PM on February 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
Feel free to memail me bugs.
posted by rouftop at 1:25 AM on February 12 [+] [!]
Heh.
posted by mightshould at 12:45 PM on February 12, 2017 [7 favorites]
posted by rouftop at 1:25 AM on February 12 [+] [!]
Heh.
posted by mightshould at 12:45 PM on February 12, 2017 [7 favorites]
A Horrifying List of Creatures That Can Crawl Into Your Body
But mostly roaches.
posted by zakur at 2:57 PM on February 15, 2017
But mostly roaches.
posted by zakur at 2:57 PM on February 15, 2017
I've had a phobia of cockroaches since one tried to fly into my mouth (while I was screaming in horror at it) when I was a child. This is even worse.
One option would be to move somewhere where the cockroaches are too large to fit in a human mouth.
posted by sebastienbailard at 12:02 AM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
One option would be to move somewhere where the cockroaches are too large to fit in a human mouth.
posted by sebastienbailard at 12:02 AM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
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