Today, my excruciating ear pain turned out to be a bastard maggot eating away at all the vital things behind my eardrum. The doctor pulled it out, but I’m now permanently deaf in that ear and can’t balance. I fall if I try to stand or walk further than 5 feet. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was taking my earrings out and thought I had lost the back of one. Turns out my ear infection has caused the flesh of my ear to grow around and engulf the back of my earring and it is still stuck in there. FML
Today, I found out that the doctors accidentally perforated my left ear drum performing a routine wax syringing. I was at the doctor's for a completely different reason, having crushed my pinky at the gym. They can't fix either and my finger needs surgery, which can't happen until next week. FML
Today, something blocked my ear. I couldn't get it out, so I went to Urgent Care so I didn't pop my eardrums. Turns out my allergies made my ears stop draining. After they rinsed my ears, I can now hear almost nothing. FML
Today, one of my ears randomly went deaf. I went to the doctor, thinking I had an ear infection or something. Turns out that your ears can go deaf entirely without reason, and I now have medication to take to see if I can get any of my hearing back in that ear. I'm only 26. FML
Today, I was teaching my two year-old daughter how to take a person's temperature. While I was sitting down, she came up behind me and shoved the thermometer in my ear hard. Now I can't hear out of my right ear, and I'm in excruciating pain. FML
Today, I was cleaning wax out my ears when my wife came barrelling into the bathroom, desperate to pee. The door slammed right into the side of my head and the cotton swab I was using was pushed all the way in and ruptured my eardrum. FML
Today, a fly flew into my ear canal and got stuck. It was the most horrifying two minutes of my life. FML
Today, I woke up completely deaf, for no reason. My doctor told me my hearing loss, "could possibly be permanent." I’m a composer. FML
Today, I went to a doctor's appointment to figure out why I've suddenly started going deaf. As it turns out, for some reason my ears now produce wax at an alarmingly fast rate. "Enough to make an entire candle before long if you save it up," the doctor said when she cleared them out. I guess this is my life now. FML
Today, my right ear drum ruptured. My family doesn't understand that I only lost hearing in one ear and continues to talk about me behind my back, thinking I can't hear them. FML
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Symphoniaes 32
I think I speak for everyone when I say: Y I K E S
Ahmed Sakr 16
On the bright side, It won't be annoying when one of your headphones stops working
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Comments (32)
interesting33 37
that is truly horrible, I'm so sorry OP. I wish you best of luck in the future
ArtLover 13
That's an fml if I've ever seen one. God that's horrible, I feel you op
Chazzster 32
That’s terrible! OP - Where do you live that this can happen?
RichardPencil 32
That’s not very fly!
Levvy 22
Yikes! As far as I know, there aren't a lot of species of fly whose larvae eat tissue that's not already dead, so that's especially unfortunate.
PenguinPal3017 19
This is terrifying. Am I the only one who has a slight pain in their ear after reading this?
Davros 12
so only go 4 1/2 feet at a time
fabs1171 23
Who said that maggot was parentless? Just because it’s parents left it to snack on your eardrum while they went out to dinner doesn’t make it a bastard
Sheepiebeepie 26
This scarred me a little, and how would you not go to the doctor long before you were permanently deaf? The pain of being eaten in a sensitive part of your body must have been intense.
Aiden89 23
I’m sleeping with earplugs from now on.