Cockroach in the brain

Live cockroach extracted from the skull of a woman

A 42-yer-old woman had a painful crawling sensation behind her eyes when she woke up in Chennai, South India, and was rushed to a local clinic where her nose was flushed and she was sent home and had to come back for emergency specialist surgery. Dr Shankar, a specialist at the Stanley Medical College Hospital explored her nasal passages with an endoscope when they saw live cockroach burrowed deep inside her nose, almost at the base of the skull and was still alive after 12 hours.  The specialists managed to extract the cockroach from her skull intact – still alive and kicking.