"A cockroach moving in my head": Bug discovered in man's ear after three days

When Zane Wedding, 40, went swimming last week, he got more than he bargained for: a cockroach, which crawled into his left ear and stayed there for three days.

Wedding, who is Maori and works for Greenpeace, took a dip in her local pool in Auckland, New Zealand, last Friday. It was there that, unbeknownst to her, the creature slipped into her ear.

When he got home, he had the feeling that his ear was blocked.
"I used some drops to unclog it and fell asleep on the couch later that night," he told CNN Thursday.
"When I woke up in the morning and it still felt plugged up, I went straight to the doctor. I had to wait for the doctor [surgeon] to open up, that's how irritating [the situation] was," he said.
Initially, the doctor thought he might have water inside his ear, so he advised him to go home and use a hair dryer to remove it.

But Wedding knew something wasn't right.
"I left the doctor with no relief. I spent most of the weekend lying on my side or with a hair dryer to my ear. When I had to walk, I was immediately dizzy. When I lay down, I could hear water moving around my eardrum," he recounted.
"Over the weekend I tried everything I could to relieve myself: ear wax, jumping on one leg, chewing gum, going for a run, anything I could think of [to] clear my ear."

"A cockroach moving in my head." 

On Sunday night, the movement suddenly stopped, but the ear was still blocked, so Wedding booked an appointment to see an ear, nose and throat specialist on Monday.
As soon as the doctor looked inside her ear, according to Wedding, she said, "Oh, my God, I think you have a bug in your ear."

"At that moment I realized that every movement I had felt over the weekend was the cockroach moving in my ear. I instantly thought about the fact that I had been pumping hot air into my head and cooking a cockroach in my ear canal all weekend.... It made me feel sick," she said.
The doctor removed the dead cockroach in a procedure that took less than five minutes. 

"Every time I touched it, I imagined her sticking a cockroach in my eardrum, so I wasn't the perfect patient. It was an instant relief.... I felt a pop as soon as the doctor took it out," she said.
"Once I knew it was a bug, it all clicked.... That's why 'the water' was moving even when I was still. It was a cockroach moving in my head."