Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Sarah had a bug in her ear!

We went to see Sarah's doctor yesterday afternoon. Her regular doctor was off this week for spring break, so we got to see Dr W instead, but he is just as nice, so that was OK with us. They quickly discovered what was wrong with her ears! Dr W took one look in her right ear and found the problem. It turned out some kind of small bug was stuck in there, blocking the ear canal!!! Oh my freaking God!!! That is just so disgusting! In Sweden we joke about ear wigs (tvestjärtar) crawling into people's ears, but I have never ever actually heard of anything like this in real life before! Dr W said it is actually more common than one would think.

They quickly got it out, and it was hard to tell what kind of bug it was. It was obviously dead and not in the best of condition anymore... Luckily Sarah just thought it was really cool, and she even asked if she could keep the bug to show daddy So she got it home in a jar...

My camera is not working, so I had to take this with the cell phone (not great quality , but I just HAD to take a picture. Gross... But at least she can hear fine now!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tur den var död...
tänk om den levt och frodats i örat... blää...
Kanske Sarah får ta med det på "show & tell" i skolan??

Tjingeling
-Mari-

Saltistjejen said...

WHAT!!!?? Det var ju verkligen oväntat!!!!!! Tur hon tog det så bra. En av mina bästa kompisars mamma fick in en fluga i örat en gång när hon rensade i deras trädgårdsland. Men den levde och surrade så hon trodde hon skulle bli tokig på väg till sjukhuset.
Och där skrattade de faktiskt ut henne. Först. De trodde hon var knäpp, psyko... Innan de verkligen kunde kosntatera att hon hade en fluga som surrade i örat!
Till slut fick de iallafall ut den.
Men sedan dess har hon alltid "öronmuffar" på sig när hon gör trädgårdsarbete!! :-D

Petra H said...

Åh fy vad äckligt!! Stackars dig som mamma, eftersom Sarah inte verkar lida av det ;-) - det måste ha varit en hemsk chock för dig att höra vad som befann sig i hennes öra! Hur länge tror du att den befunnit sig i örat?

Anonymous said...

Stackars lilla unge :-( Det var verkligen SKIT äckligt... :-D Såg att du ringt igår- vi var ute!! Kram / Anna