Maggots Love Earwax

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Last night, while watching Imbestigador, I was genuinely appalled by what I witnessed. And no, I'm not referring to the segments that host Mike Enriquez often favors, which typically revolve around sex-related issues. Instead, they featured a segment highlighting the exploitation of young gay boys who were being paid to perform live sex shows online. However, there was another feature that left me utterly shocked—a baby with live maggots in her ear.

The distressed baby cried incessantly, and her parents were at a loss as to what to do. They hurriedly took her to the nearest clinic upon noticing a small amount of blood dripping from her ear. The doctor swiftly examined the child's ear and was taken aback to discover a squirming maggot inside. With tweezers in hand, he gently removed the maggot, and although the video footage was blurred, it was enough to make me unleash a stream of expletives. Maggots are undeniably creepy and deeply unsettling to me.

As if that wasn't already enough to send shivers down my spine, they announced that they had found a second maggot in the same ear of the baby. What the actual fuck?! I couldn't help but wonder what the baby's parents were doing to allow this to happen. The doctor explained that a fly somehow managed to lay its eggs in the baby's ear. But how on earth did that occur? Either the hospital had flies freely roaming around in their pediatric ICU, or the parents failed to notice a fly depositing its offspring in their baby's ear. Let's flip a coin, shall we?

That's it! I'm not taking off my earphones anymore! That's the "magic" of Imbestigador; it raises awareness about the potential dangers that any one of us could face. Just what we need in these challenging times: a healthy dose of paranoia.

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