Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Leech - ectomy

Photographer Ian BrittonPhotographer: Ian Britton

Doctors remove leech from woman's eyeball

SYDNEY – A 66-year-old woman was doing some gardening in the backyard of her suburban Sydney home when she accidentally flicked some moist soil and a tiny leech into her left eye.

The leech wriggled its way over her eyeball and made for the safety of up under her upper eyelid. There it started to feed from the delicate blood vessels behind the eye. Doctors removed the leech with a saline solution to find it had quadrupled in size to 2cm long.

Ewww!

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8 comments:

  1. DuPreeApril 21, 2009 at 10:25 PM

    AAGH! EWWW! YAHHH!!

    I will never step outdoors again. It is obviously far too dangerous - all full of nature and ... stuff.

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  2. BobApril 21, 2009 at 11:31 PM

    Yikes!
    And this is the first post I've read today!

    I'll be Saran Wrapping my eyeballs before gardening again!

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  3. XanaduApril 22, 2009 at 1:10 AM

    Doggone it! I can't see the picture at work, vut it sounds just...wonderful. EWW! I'll check this out at home later. Note to self--->Never, EVER leave the house without glasses on! Hugs.

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  4. becomingkateApril 22, 2009 at 4:29 AM

    OMG! **shudder**

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  5. mr-stuApril 22, 2009 at 4:56 AM

    I hate slugs at the best of times and that sounds like a horror story in the making, safety glasses for me in the garden now as we have thousands of the pests!

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  6. LouApril 22, 2009 at 6:05 AM

    Haha gruesome eh?

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  7. intelliwenchApril 22, 2009 at 6:59 AM

    Thank you for not illustrating the story with a photo of the subject in question!

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  8. LouApril 22, 2009 at 5:49 PM

    I did consider it intelli one but thought I'd spare y'all har har

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