英伦广角 2013-07-20 英国女子头痛欲裂 竟是食肉蛆啃食耳朵

 “The Ear was buzzing. So I was just trying, trying my best to get it out.” 

The buzzing stopped. Rochelle assumed that was end of it. Within 48 hours on the flight home, she was in serious trouble. 

“Excruciating stopping pain, that never relented.” 

One of the team spotted¹ a small hole in Rochelle’s ear canal.  

“She spent quite a lot of time looking at my ear, without saying what was in there. I think it was after about an hour my mum asked, you know, said “can you see what it is?”

“The doctor has seen there was something crew out, the x go and go in her ear.”    

“And the doctor said ‘If you don't mind I’d prefer to go to speak to the registrar² before I tell you anything’. And then, my mum said ‘Please tell us’ and I said what this you know, ‘Please, I want to know’. And at last she said, ‘you got maggots in your ear.’” 

Doctors ordered the CT scan to establish what damage had already been done, how many maggots were still inside Rochelle, and where they were hiding.

“I was very scared, while they were in my brain, I thought this could be very very serious.”   

“Our main concern was the facial nerve risk. And facial nerve controls all of the muscle expression on and outside of your face.” 

The scan showed Rochelle’s ear drum and facial nerve were undamaged, but the maggots had chewed a 12 mm hole in her ear cannel.

“Although the CT guided us, us to the size of the cavity, it was important for us to have a full explore around the soft tissue cavity, and make sure that wasn’t extending any x leading dangerous like the facial nerve or blood vessels³.   

Given Rochelle’s true x state, she was dated in preparation for surgery. I’m sure just what they might find, the surgical⁴ team explores Rochelle’s ear using a microscope and the speculum.  

And after we pushed this back through the hole I opened out, I saw arising massive maggots.

It was clear that the maggots already extracted weren’t dying alone.

1 spotted   

adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的

参考例句：

• The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。

2 registrar   

n.记录员，登记员；(大学的)注册主任

参考例句：

• You can obtain the application from the registrar.你可以向注册人员索取申请书。
• The manager fired a young registrar.经理昨天解雇了一名年轻的记录员。

3 vessels   

n.血管( vessel的名词复数 )；船；容器；（具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的）人

参考例句：

• The river is navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons. 90 吨以下的船只可以从这条河通过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• All modern vessels of any size are fitted with radar installations. 所有现代化船只都有雷达装置。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4 surgical   

adj.外科的，外科医生的，手术上的

参考例句：

• He performs the surgical operations at the Red Cross Hospital.他在红十字会医院做外科手术。
• All surgical instruments must be sterilised before use.所有的外科手术器械在使用之前，必须消毒。