My techy boy put in the movie and all was right in the world.
While we were watching the show we had the lights slightly dimmed and, you know how little bugs like to fly into the light? Well, apparently we were in a "light" spot and I kept having to swat these little flying critters away. They weren't the typical gnat. They were tinier. I was afraid one was going to shoot up my nose. It's happened before and that is such a treat. Sitting there all innocent and while taking a life giving breath, in flies the gnat/bug/violator of my space and brain! Trying to find the fine line of blowing the bug out without blowing snot with it, without inhaling air through your nose, all to keep the bug from going down the hatch... EWWW!!!
One of these things tried to go in my eye, in my mouth, up my nose. So much for a quiet movie!
Now the smart person would have probably turned the lights down or off, but it was a little later and my brain was on fuzzy mode. However, in light of what happened next, the slight amount of energy that it would have taken to shut one light off would have saved me the angst of the next 20 minutes of my life!
Have you ever had a mosquito fly around your ear and you can hear that high pitched buzzing sound? It brings an automatic response in me: fight or flight. The adrenaline kicks in and I have to get that thing away before it sucks out my blood. Well, I have heard that sound a time or two and Wikipedia says that it is the sound of the wings. It comes from the male and female (not just the female). You simply don't hear the male because they don't bite. There is your science lesson for the day. Your welcome.
Well, as I am randomly swatting these little annoying pests away I heard that high pitched noise in my right ear! So naturally, I squealed and swatted and flung myself around to get it away. Sorry. Natural reaction. Just be thankful I'm not your E.R. nurse.
I thought the little bugger was gone, but when I stopped flailing around, all of a sudden I could hear that sound and it was IN MY EAR!! Inside. My. Ear.
But wait! There's more!
I proceeded to start screaming in a light scream sort of fashion. This wasn't a massive spider. That requires a full on, deep volumed sort of scream. One the neighbors can hear. One that makes everyone come running. Since both kids were there, I had no need to scream like that.
No. I was laid out on the couch, wiggling off of the couch and I was dissolved into hysterics. I could feel the bug fluttering it's wings. In. My. Ear.
Seriously. It was like an out of body experience. I want to know if any of you have had a similar experience? I want to hear your bizarre stories! For real.
So the fluttering went on in my ear! for quite a while. It would stop and I would think really quickly about what I should do? I mean, what if this thing dies in there? What if it had baby gnatlets? Would I qualify as something like the Old Lady That Swallowed A Fly? Could I get on the Hoarders show? So many plaguing thoughts running rampant through my mind. Then the fluttering would kick in and I was laid out laughing because it tickled. I just want you to know that it tickled. I was laughing so hard that I was wheezing. The kids were going to start calling me Wheezer.
I'm not sure if it came out or not. I had several people get very concerned for my health and well being. We are not your hospital kind of people, though. I'd just wait to go to the dr.'s office if I needed to go anywhere. It was suggested that I use a water/peroxide mixture to get it out posthaste.
I did what any logical, nursing background, kind of person would do. I had the kids get me a toothpick. That is about as hillbilly as it gets. Hey, it was a clean one.
I had to itch my ear because it was TICKLING ME!!! I didn't really poke the toothpick in my ear all the way. HELLO. I'm not a total idiot.
The fluttering finally went away and I assume the bug made an exit. Hopefully it isn't dead in my ear. I'll have to have Rodger sniff around my ear and tell me if there is an unpleasant odor. Sniffing is a proven science. I had a friend that was reading books to her kids for school and she kept getting a whiff of an unpleasant odor. She finally took a flashlight and looked up her son's nose because that is where the offensive odor was coming from. It was a bean. And it was a "squeeze us in today" kind of pediatrician visit, before Jack comes flying out of this boy's nose with the golden egg!
So naturally everyone tells me about how spiders have crawled in ears, ladybugs, all kinds of critters have taken up residence in people's ears. Stories are coming out of the woodwork.
As for me, I'm taking care to wear a full bee suit while sitting in my house to watch a movie in the dim lighting. Seems like the logical thing to do.
Bug free is the way to be!
Tammy
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