Today's post clearly illustrates the importance of getting a second opinion when you know something is amiss. A 42 year old woman in Chennai,India woke up in the middle of the night with a crawling sensation in her right nostril and a burning sensation in her head. She went with her son to the nearest clinic but they couldn't find anything wrong. The next day she was still suffering the same symptoms and went to that state run Stanley Medical College Hospital where doctors discovered a cockroach sitting between her eyes close to the brain. A 45 minute procedure with clamps and a suction device was finally able to extract the intruder. The good news is one of the doctors with 30 years experience said he had never seen anything like it and if left alone the roach would have died and caused the woman's brain to become infected. I'm not too squeamish about bugs but that would no doubt change if one ever decided to take up residence inside my head.
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