Beware Brownish Masses In Your Nostrils

Via jwz, honestly the grossest thing I've ever heard. I know you won't be able to resist reading this now - your curiosity will be too much - but I still warn you, this is truly disturbing.

The woman went to her doctor complaining of nose bleeds and an occasional sensation that something was blocking her left nostril, the Hong Kong Medical Journal said in its April issue. Her family doctor noticed a "brownish mass" in her nostril but couldn't remove it because of heavy bleeding, the journal said.

My emphasis added on the punchline here.

The patient was taken to the emergency room, where doctors identified the problem as a [motherfucking] bloodsucking leech [for fuck's sake!]. They had trouble pulling it out because the 2 inch invertebrate retracted into the nostril and disappeared, the journal said.

Part of the slimy leech was in a passage of her nasal cavity and a larger segment was in her sinus cavity, the article said.

Again, that's my emphasis and interjections added; apologies for the language, but come on, that is heinous. Sounds like an urban legend, right? Hell, maybe it is, but here's the SFGate article.