Mom… Something Is Crawling Inside My Ear.” — One Night In A Tent, One Cotton Swab She Almost Used, And A Discovery That Changed Two Lives Forever
It started with four words whispered into a dark tent: “Mom, my ear feels weird.” By dawn my daughter was screaming, pressing both hands to her head, sobbing that something was *moving* inside her. I reached for a cotton swab — and a single sentence from years ago stopped my hand an inch from her ear. That decision was the only reason we ended up talking about ear drops instead of surgery. And it was only the beginning of what that day would change.
