BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IT MAY BE TRUE!

A woman was working in a post
> office in California.
> One day she licked the envelopes and postage stamps
> instead of using
> a sponge. That very day the lady found a cut on her
> tongue. A week
> later, she noticed an abnormal swelling of her
> tongue. She went to
> the doctor, and they found nothing wrong. Her tongue
> was not sore or
> anything. A couple of days later, her tongue started
> to swell more,
> and it began to get really sore, so sore, that she
> could not eat.
> She went back to the hospital, and demanded
> something be done. The
> doctor took an x-ray of her tongue and noticed a
> lump. He prepared
> her for minor surgery. When the doctor cut her
> tongue open, a live
> cockroach crawled out!!!!
> There were cockroach eggs on the seal of the
> envelope. The egg was
> able to hatch inside of her tongue, because of her
> saliva. It was
> warm and moist...
>
>
>
> WHAT U READ ABOVE IS A TRUE STORY REPORTED IN CNN.
> Andy Hume wrote:
> Hey, I used to work in an envelope factory. You
> wouldn't believe
> the....things that float around in those gum
> applicator trays. I
> haven't licked an envelope for years!" I used to
> work for a print
> shop
> (32 years ago) and we were told NEVER to lick the
> envelopes. I never
> understood why until I had to go into storage and
> pull out 2500
> envelopes that were already printed and saw several
> squads of
> cockroaches roaming around inside a couple of boxes
> with eggs
> everywhere. They eat the glue on the envelopes.
> PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO WHOM EVER U CAN. After
> reading this you will
> never lick another envelope or stamp again....WILL
> YOU??ANYWAY, BE
> CAREFULL!