⚠️ WARNING this video includes worms and is NOT for the faint of heart. If you saw our last post, I talk about parasites in the caption. This incident actually happened while we were in Botswana this past Summer but we only shared it on our Bucket List Friends video : THINGS GONE WRONG IN AFRICA. 😰 Cali had been complaining of a pain on the top of his head but it just looked like a little red bump. The next day it had a white tip like a pimple but after showing our guides and a local medic nobody knew what it could be. Randomly, I texted a photo of it to my girlfriend back home and her husband recognized it as a boy fly! A BOT FLY!!?!?!! 😱 Have you heard of these??? Basically, 6 days prior, a bot fly bit Cali on the head and laid its egg inside his skin. The egg then hatched and the larva continued to live in his head and would have been there for ~20 more days until it was ready to crawl out and fly away on its own!! 🤯 It was late into the night when my girlfriend notified me it may be a bot fly so I woke up Garrett and with tweezers in hand said “you’re not going to believe this. I think the pimple is alive and we need to operate.” Those who know Garrett know he hates gross stuff like this but he went total Papa Bear mode and with steady hands, got it out! We didn’t know what to expect so you can imagine our shock and terror as that long work began to pull out!! 😱 That look on Garrett’s face at the end says it all! 😳 Cali immediately felt better and fell back asleep and as soon as the next morning he was bragging to his big brother about the “head monster” that dad pulled out of his skin. 😳😱🤯 MORAL OF THE STORY : Traveling isn’t always rainbows and butterflies. Sometimes it’s tweezers and bot flies. ❤️‍🩹