I did another amazingly stupid thing so of course I want to share it [View all]

I get ear infections and I've got one now. It is painful. So a little while ago I decided to use one of my ear candles. If you don't know they are made of some wax stuff and they are like a long cone. You light the top on fire and stick it in your ear while it burns, (you are supposed to have someone else hold it but that sounds too reasonable to me). It is something about the heat of the fire is supposed to help pull up the wax, (or whatever) in your ear. Plus the warmness is nice

These candles are different though. They have a little plastic cone at the smallest part that you are supposed to take out. Well, of course I forgot about the thing and after the candle burned down and I pulled it out I felt this terrible pain and I knew something was still in my ear.

I ran to my next door neighbor with a needle nose pliers and banged on his window. He got a couple other tools because the stupid thing was stuck in there.

So here it is - it is not a worm like it looks and know that the circumference gets wider as it goes further into the ear. It took about 15 minutes to get it out