“It was sitting in the skull base, between the two eyes, close to the brain,” is what doctors at the Stanley Medical College Hospital in Chennai had to say. But they weren’t describing a tumor sitting in a patient’s brain – the object in question here was, in fact… a live cockroach.
Forty-two-year old Selvi said she felt a strange sensation around her nose and eyes when she went to sleep.
She was fast asleep when she felt an insect crawling inside her nostril. She tried to brush it aside, but it seemed to have entered her nasal cavity. Her son-in-law took her to a nearby clinic who directed her to the government hospital where the cockroach was finally taken out.
“This is the first such case I have seen in my three decades of practice,” Dr MN Shankar told The New Indian Express.
Selvi said she had a tingling sensation and her eyes burnt every time the insect moved inside.
I spent the entire night in discomfort, sitting up and waiting for dawn to go to Stanley hospital after getting the reference of a doctor from my employer.
The doctors said she turned up at the right time because if the cockroach had died inside her nasal cavity, it may have harmed her brain. What a resilient cockroach, indeed!
Source: The New Indian Express
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