Random Most Horrifying Things Found Living Inside People (19 items)

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  (#19) A Spider Was Living In This Woman's Ear

  In August 2012, a Chinese woman went to the doctor after experiencing a week of having a very itchy ear. When she got to Changsha Central Hospital of Otolaryngology, doctors found a creepy looking spider nesting in her ear. Doctors were afraid if they tried to grab the spider it would instinctively burrow, so they used a saline solution to flush out the eight-legged squatter. 
• (#15) A Raccoon Worm Was Living In This Man's Retina

  In 2010, John Matthews of Cedar Rapids, IA, thought he was going blind. When he went to specialists, they discovered a raccoon worm was living in his retina. Even though the parasite was tiny - only 1/20 of an inch long - it was wreaking havoc on Matthew's eye. It was moving and eating the retina. Doctors ultimately had to use a special laser to kill the devious parasite. 
• (#7) A Fish Swam Up 14 Year-Old's Urethra

  I'm sure you've heard of that little fish (the candirú) that will swim into your urethra if you ever whip it out in the Amazon. It's real - and a real good reason to never whip it out in the Amazon. But there's another, related story that you should know. Think of it as a cautionary tale about handling exotic pets.

  In India, a 14 year-old-boy went to the hospital complaining of pain in his bladder and an inability to urinate. The doctors did an ultrasound and discovered an object in the bladder, blocking his urethra. The boy was taken to surgery where the doctors cut him open. Can you guess what they found?

  The fish was 2 cm long and lodged all the way up inside his bladder. And here comes the best part. When asked how it got there, this was the boy's answer:

  While he was cleaning the fish tank in his house, he was holding a fish in his hand and went to the toilet for passing urine. While he was passing urine, the fish slipped from his hand and entered his urethra and then he developed all these symptoms.

  After surgery, the boy was released, but taken to psychiatric counseling.
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  (#3) A Live Snail Was In A Four-Year-Old's Knee

  During a family vacation in July 2013, four-year-old Paul Franklin tripped and skinned his right knee at the beach. The family didn't think much of the scrape and cleaned it out and popped a band-aid on it. Cut to a few weeks later, and the knee was incredibly infected. 

  Doctors believed it was a staph infection and treated it with antibiotics. While it helped with the oozing of the knee, there was still a growing black bump underneath Paul's skin. Fed up, Paul's mom decided to squeeze the growth and out popped a sea snail. Paul opted to keep the sea snail and named him Turbo. 
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  (#14) A Pea Plant Was Growing Inside This Man's Lung

  In August 2010, Ron Sveden of Massachusetts was rushed to the hospital after his lung collapsed. He had been battling emphysema for months when his lung gave out. He assumed he would have a cancer diagnosis after he had some x-rays done, but what was actually growing in his lung wasn't a tumor - it was a pea plant. Mr. Sveden said the plant was about half an inch in size. 
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  (#16) Russian Surgeons Found A Two-Inch Fir Tree Growing In This Man's Lungs

  In April 2009. a 28-year-old Aryyom Sidorkin began coughing up blood. Alarmed, he went to the hospital. Doctors opened him up to remove what they thought was a tumor. 

  "We were 100% sure," Vladimir Kamashev, a surgeon in Izhevsk in the Urals told The Telegraph. "We did X-rays and found what looked exactly like a tumor. 

  Kamashev thought he was hallucinating when he saw what was a tiny fir tree growing in one of Sidorkin's lungs. Medical professionals believe Sidorkin must have inhaled a seed that nestled perfectly in his lungs and began to grow. 

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