Experience: A cockroach got stuck in my ear

It clawed further in, burrowing deeper with its mouth. It was excruciatingly painfulIt was January 2014, and I was living in Darwin, Australia, with a couple of friends. It had been an uneventful Tuesday evening and I went to sleep as normal, around midnight. I was living in an older-style house, which, for ventilation, had a gap of about 45cm between the internal walls and the roof.I woke up at about 2am and realised I couldn’t hear in one ear. I was sleepy and perplexed, but I knew