A Florida man got a little too nosy for his own good and ended up in the E.R. -- with over 150 bugs stuck up his nose.
The man, whose name was not released, says he went to the hospital after he started feeling "a little bit off," and ended up on an exam table where a doctor found the live insects and larvae squirming around in his nose and sinus cavities. The patient said "I started getting nose bleeds, constant nose bleeds. I couldn't even get up to go to the bathroom without my nose starting to bleed. When I went for the examination the doctor says, 'I see movement.'"
These weren't tiny critters. A Dr. Carlson, who treated the man said "Size wise there's variations, but the larger ones were as big as the end of my pinky. I knew he was in big trouble, there was erosion that was occurring near the skull base in very close proximity to his eye and his brain."
The doctor said the man couldn't explain how the insects got into his sinus cavity, but guessed that the problem started when he handled freshly caught fish and failed to wash his hands -- which he promised to do from now on. (First Coast News)