A Bug in My Ear

I woke up one morning and heard and felt something by my ear. Thinking a bug was crawling around my ear, I naturally freaked out a little bit and tried to bat away the bug. Only when I sat up and smacked, there was nothing there. Yet I could still feel and hear the bug. I jumped out of bed and ran out my bedroom door. I ran into another volunteer and told him I felt like there was something in my ear. “Yeah that happens.” He said very nonchalantly. “THAT HAPPENS!?” I asked as calmly as I could. He advised me to go across the hall and have one of the doctors take a look after telling me a few horror stories of other volunteers who this has happened to. Stories of doctors pouring a liquid in volunteer’s ears because they thought they had something in their ear and a hundred small bugs flowing out. Throughout the day many other volunteers contributed their own horror stories of bugs invading ones body.

Of course the doctors weren’t in; they were off on a conference or something. So I was given another doctors number to call for advice. He told me that this happens all the time, and has been happening for millions of years. “It is not as if the bug will eat through your brain and come out the other side.” He explained clammy and slightly annoyed because I had woken him the day after the big election. I knew the bug wouldn’t eat my brain but the visual was a nice addition to my all ready anxious imagination.

I wanted to get away from the feel of the bug moving around in my ear. Just the thought of the bug in my ear made me crawl with disgust. The doctor told me to have someone shine a light in my ear and see if it would crawl out. I was almost as grossed out at the thought of it crawling out of my ear as it actually being in there. I asked a willing participant to give it a try, but no such luck. Every time I heard the thing moving around would freak out a little. Finally it kind of started to hurt. That was the last straw. I went into the bathroom and filled my ear with water and drown the bug. When the doctor called back later to see how I was holding up I told him I killed the bug. The doctor told me that it will just fall out eventually.