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Woman finds three-inch leech in nose after South East Asia trip

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ThankeeSai

ThankeeSai

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Nope.

Suck my blood if old.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-29595164

A backpacker found a 3in (7.5cm) leech that had been living up her nose for a month after a trip to South East Asia.

Daniela Liverani, 24, from Edinburgh, had been having nosebleeds for weeks but put them down to a burst blood vessel from a motorbike crash.

Ms Liverani was having a shower last Thursday when she was realised the dark shape wriggling in her nose was actually an animal.

Hospital staff used forceps and tweezers to remove the parasite.

Ms Liverani believes she picked up the leech in Vietnam or Cambodia, but even when she felt it moving up and down her nostril, she thought it was a blood clot.

She told BBC Radio Scotland: "Your initial reaction isn't to start thinking, oh God, there's obviously a leech in my face."

'Little ridges'
It was when Ms Liverani was in the shower that the leech's presence was most noticeable.

She said: "Obviously my nasal passages would open up because of the steam and the heat and the water, and it would come out quite far, about as far as my lip.

"So I could kind of see it out of the corner of my eye but still didn't think it was a worm because it just looked like a blood clot.

"On Thursday I jumped out the shower and I unsteamed the mirror and I had a proper good look, and I could see little ridges on him."

That was the moment when Ms Liverani realised she was housing a parasite.

'Strange situation'
She went to accident and emergency where doctors removed "Mr Curly" - as Ms Liverani nicknamed the leech - with forceps and tweezers.

"The doctors did a great job, hats off to them, because obviously they don't see something like that every day", she added.

"They did what they could in a strange situation while trying to keep their cool."

Ms Liverani then took the leech home for the night, at the doctors' suggestion. However, Mr Curly did not live to see another day.

"He's in an Edinburgh City Council bin," said Ms Liverani. "He's probably long gone by now. I boiled him first."
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Nikodemos

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She should've left it with the hospital, they sometimes use them for hematoma removal, reconstructive surgery, limb reattachments and varicose vein alleviation.
 
NekoFever

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I like how she has regular nosebleeds and a "blood clot" coming half an inch out of her nose for weeks after being in a motorcycle accident but doesn't go to a doctor. Does she post on GAF?

Nikodemos said:
She should've left it with the hospital, they sometimes use them for hematoma removal, reconstructive surgery, limb reattachments and varicose vein alleviation.
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I don't think they use ones that someone picked up in the jungles of Vietnam.
 
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Staab

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I like how she casually thinks "oh it's just a massive blood clot, no big deal".
Seems very calm and collected although she has a massive leech inside her nasal cavity !!
 
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Nodnol

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She's kinda cute.

Doesn't bold well for me though that she doesn't notice three-inch objects in her orifices.
 
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cardinalmind

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I live in South East Asia, about to go on a mountain excursion trip, am I dead now?
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How the fuck can't she felt a strange being was living inside her nose?
 
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Sch1sm

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How did she not freak when she realised that there was something just chilling in her nose? My first reaction wouldn't be an A&E/ER, I'd probably be there for cardiac arrest within about a half hour of noticing, though.
 
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