Emergency room doctors are famously full of strange tales of patients who have got themselves into the most eyebrow-raising medical situations
But it’s certain that any ER doctor that had to deal with the situation Ashley Glawe of Portland, Oregon, found herself in last week would be dining out on that story for years.
Ashley is the proud owner of a slightly too-curious Ball Python snake named Bart, who recently thought that her gauged earlobe looked like the perfect place to slither on through.
Quite the situation: Ashley Glawe found herself in an Oregon emergency room last week after her pet snake got stuck in her earlobe
Right on through: Ashley shared images of her predicament on Facebook, saying that ‘before I even knew what was going on it was already too late’
Ashley was playing with her snake without her plugs in her stretched lobes when he decided to pop his head through the gaping hole.
But then, what began as a funny moment between owner and pet quickly turned into a problem when it became clear that Bart was too big to fit all the way through.
When Ashley realized that there was no way for her to safely extract her pet from her earlobe, she headed to the ER.
Not quite there: The snake proved just a bit too thick to squeeze through Ashley’s already stretched lobe
While waiting in the doctor’s office, Ashley snapped an incredible image illustrating her predicament, and shared it on Facebook.
‘BY FAR one of my CRAZIEST life moments! Went to the Emergency Room because my Ball Python decided to get STUCK in my gauged earlobe!’ she wrote in the caption for the image.
She added: ‘It all happened SO fast that before I even knew what was going on it was already too late.’
The photo, posted last Monday, has since been shared hundreds of times.
All smiles: The doctors were able to separate the two by numbing Ashley’s ear and stretching it further with string
Having a laugh: One of Ashley’s friends (pictured) poked fun at her situation with a wooden toy snake looped through a hoop earring
Luckily, the doctor’s would have better luck sorting out the situation than Ashley did on her own.
‘They numbed up my ear and used string to pull and stretch it out more so that they could get him out without hurting him,’ Ashley explained in the comments of her post.
The young woman’s friends were unsurprisingly tickled by the situation – even though Ashley claims it ‘scared the s*** out of me’ at the time – and one even poked fun at her with a photo showing her having placed a wooden toy snake through one of her hoop earrings.
source: dailymail.co.uk
