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whoa...thats pretty damn hardcore.
Could give me nightmares.
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/new...qeolpo0&src=ap
Larvae Take Up Residence on Man's Head
CARBONDALE, Colo. (AP) - Doctors thought the strange, bleeding bumps on Aaron Dallas' head might be from gnat bites or shingles. Then the bumps started moving.
A doctor found five active bot fly larvae living beneath the skin atop Dallas' head.
"I'd put my hand back there and feel them moving. I thought it was blood coursing through my head," Dallas told the (Glenwood Springs) Post Independent.
"I could hear them. I actually thought I was going crazy."
Dallas said he likely received the larval infestation while on a trip to Belize this summer. Bot fly infections are not uncommon in parts of Central and South America.
Adult bot flies are hairy and look like bees, without bristles. The larvae, which are about one-third the size of a penny, were living in a pit 2- to 3- millimeters wide. They were removed Thursday.
"It was weird and traumatic," said Dallas, of Carbondale. "I would get this pain that would drop me to my knees."
After a specialist told him he might have shingles, Dallas tried different creams and salves. But the pain only got worse.
"When I saw him again, it was pretty obvious something else was going on," said Dr. Kimball Spence, who could see the spots moving on Dallas' head. "There's an open pit. You see a little activity, not necessarily the larvae, but a fluctuation of the fluid in the pit."
Dallas' wife, Midge Dallas, teased him about it.
"I told him, 'I will love you through your maggots,'" she told the newspaper.
But Dallas saw little to laugh about.
"It's much funnier to everyone else," he said. "It makes my stomach turn over. It was cruel."
whoa...thats pretty damn hardcore.
I would kill myself.
hahaha, not quite suicide worthy
Jesus, that's ing disturbing.
Okay, maybe not. But maggots living inside of my scalp would be pretty ing close.
At least you didn't have a worm infestation, only known to you when you saw one crawling across the inside of your eye. Saw it on a parasite show on Animal Planet.
Global warming means a lot of these nasty tropical animals and diseases will be migrating north, as sub-tropical la udes become tropical.
thats why you should keep your ass in america
That's what the guy gets for letting random guys all over his face and head.
I'd bang myself in the head for that. Creepy.
I read all about those on a random Google search one day. That is beyond disturbing.
Common in other parts of the world.
Call me weird, but it's not that gross to me. I'm a nursing school drop-out and I've read about much more disturbing infestations in microbiology class.
Soon to be Divorced ForumDallas' wife, Midge Dallas, teased him about it.
"I told him, 'I will love you through your maggots,'" she told the newspaper.
But Dallas saw little to laugh about.
"It's much funnier to everyone else," he said. "It makes my stomach turn over. It was cruel."
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