Ants eat away woman's eye in hospital

[SteppingRazor]

AAAIIEEEEEEEEEE!!!! I am having nightmares tonight:

A woman receiving treatment for diabetes at a state-run hospital in eastern India lost one of her eyes after ants nibbled away at it, officials said on Tuesday.

The patient recovering from a post-surgery infection shrieked for help as the ants attacked her on Sunday night, but nurses told her it was normal to feel pain from the infection.

On Monday, the patient's family saw a gaping hole with swarming ants in it when they lifted the bandage on her left eye.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051115/od_nm/india_ants_dc;_ylt=Ahm.K65V_j05H6H_cd2Hdtys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

[YOY]

1. Jeebity Jeebus!!! That's sick!!!

You won't be alone in nightmareland tonight!!!

[Endangered Specie]

2. Dang, sounds like Room 101 to me

:scared:

[tocqueville]

5. sounds like an urban legend to me

waiting for Snopes.

even if ants were in the hospital (which is plausible) why were they ONLY under the bandage (and en masse) and not all over the body... ?

[SteppingRazor]

6. I agree. It is a little fishy. n/t

[Orangepeel]

10. if we had single payer healthcare, things like this would happen here, too

:sarcasm:

[Horse with no Name]

13. Because the flesh was exposed

and they were drawn to it.
You can just call it "eye candy". :banghead:
I'm going to hell for that one.

[fhqwhgads]

14. you're not alone...

...i'm going to hell for laughing. and for other things too.

Horse with no Name said:
<<You can just call it "eye candy". :banghead:
I'm going to hell for that one.>>

[Catherine Vincent]

3. oh jesus!

I won't sleep tonight.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Bush to orders Bolton to orchestrate UN airlift of anteaters ASAP.

[PerpetualWinter]

7. I'm so using this if I ever make a horror movie...

of course, I also used some of the Pro-life whackos pics in album layouts.

[soleft]

8. Did you find this story because of the thread of Yahoo headlines

[SteppingRazor]

11. No, I just google "ants and 'human flesh' " every couple days...

Death by ant is a hobby of mine.


Ahem. Now that I'm back from wise-ass land, I saw the story just by popping over to yahoo news to check out the latest stuff, and happened to see this at the top of the "most popular" list.

[sepia_steel]

9. I saw this on MSN news and I just was stunned.

And i felt glad that i don't live in India.

[afdip]

12. the family was keeping an eye out for them . . . sorry, i couldn't

help myself

[SteppingRazor]

15. You know, comments like that really make me feel antsy n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. This sort of thing is no picnic, that's for sure.