Ants eat away woman's eye in hospital

[underpants]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051115/od_nm/india_ants_dc

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - 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.

Authorities of the Sambhunath Hospital in Kolkata said they were probing the incident.

[merh]

1. Ewwwww, what a visual

:puke:

That poor lady. Can you imagine how painful that was? :freak:

[underpants]

2. No

No I can't.

Yikes! I just gave myself the heebiejeebies for the rest of the day.

Scampering rats and stray cats and dogs sharing bed space with patients are not uncommon sights at India's overcrowded state-run hospitals that are used by millions of poor and middle-class people.

[merh]

4. You gave me the heebiejeebies too.

That poor lady.

[Deja Q]

3. I think you topped Matcom...

:party:

But we want pics of those hungry hungry ants! :9

[underpants]

5. No, I don't think we do

No thanks

[matcom]

6. WHO WANTS BREAKFAST?

:bounce:

[underpants]

7. I was going to offer a breakfast time "teaser"

but I decided to go "raw" with this one.

:scared:

I'll bet YOU could feel the shiver that just went up MY spine.

:scared:

[matcom]

8. i'm craving Granola

:bounce:

[peekaloo]

9. "Probing the incident"? Gross.

Poor woman.

Family finds a gaping hole and authorities are looking into it.

*old Polish joke*

[Blue Diadem]

10. OMG!

That poor lady.

I feel sick now..

[Strong Atheist]

11. There was a movie whose name I can't remember

that involved someone killing all the doctors and nurses who had operated on his daughter. She died, and the father started killing the health workers using some biblical formula (I think it was the plagues against Egypt). At any rate, one person was paralyzed, and eaten alive by locusts ...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

14. Sounds like one of the Dr Phibes movies...

[redqueen]

12. Now *that's* great nursing care!

:nuke:

[Shell Beau]

13. Ouch! That had to be miserably painful.

Poor lady!

I saw on a Primetime(abc)investigation of our veteran hospitals this one man who had gone so long w/o any care (he was in a coma) that flies laid eggs in his nostrils and he had maggots in there! x( Horrible!!! Just disgusting and pathetic.

[Arugula Latte]

15. Let me guess. Then Bush told the hospital administrators:

"Heckuva job!"

[Shell Beau]

16. Very likely!!

x(

[Sequoia]

17. Oh, great. Thanks for the news, I'm trying to eat my doughnut.

I'll bet you liked all those icky bug episodes of The X Files too.

However, we can always count on you for sensational posts!

[Magrittes Pipe]

18. Great, you just disgusted my wife.

Looks like I won't be getting lucky, after all. x(