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Let me preface what I'm gonna tell you by saying I'm not easily grossed out, okay? As a registered nurse working in hospitals, emergency rooms, home health and a stint as coroner,  I've seen the gamut of disgusting. People vomiting blood, sh*tting blood, blood coming from ears, eyes and noses, pus, vomit, sputum,  feces (you lay people would be surprised how much sh*t the human gut can hold), gangrene, an autopsy where a cadaver's torso was split open, the intestines pulled out and examined and stuffed back in.
Burns, snakebites, oozing cancers--I've seen it all. And God--the car wrecks--including one time when the brain of a MVA victim ejected from a car was found in a ditch, almost intact, and seeing the ambulance LPN scoop it up in gloved hands and put the glistening organ fouled with grass and dirt into an emesis basin.
After a while it gets where you see this stuff, then go have lunch, unperturbed. But three weeks ago I saw the most repulsive thing I have ever seen. A small black beetle- like bug was skittering across the dining room floor. I get ants in the summer, and do have spiders--but other insects--no. So I was surprised to see this bug and smushed it with the end of my walking stick.
Almost immediately a thin brown worm started crawling out of the beetle's head, like a brown thread, wriggling around. I hate worms anyway, but seeing that thing was awful, (like that scene from the movie "Alien" where the alien bursts out of the man's abdomen in a bloody mess.) I killed it and sprayed it with Raid and picked it up with a paper towel and sealed it in a plastic bag and drove to the gas station and threw it in a trashcan.
I mopped and cleaned--but still can't walk across that part of the floor--Yeecch! I've lived here 30 years and never saw anything like that. Nobody I talked to had ever seen anything like that either. Okay, may it was just a one time oddity. Then 10 days later a spider was running in circles on the carpet, and I smushed it with my stick--and it happened again--a worm emerged, wriggling around. Repulsive. Horrible.
I called the universities in Hattiesburg, and phoned the county agent who emailed a renowned entomologist in New York, an expert. He said he had no idea how or why insects of different species (spiders are arachnids, in a class by themselves) could have been infested with the same kind of parasite. Nematode was mentioned. All I know is I have a bottle with alcohol in it and should I kill another one, I'm gonna collect it and take it to the county agent.
Okay Laura, see what you've gone and made me do? Susil
