NEW MARKET, Md. - A young Maryland girl was rushed to the hospital with a problem doctors have never seen before. It all had to do with a pain in her eye.

Somehow, Monday afternoon, a tiny little tick embedded itself in 8-year-old Brianna Adams' left eye.

"My eye hurt so bad I kept telling my mom," said Brianna. "She said 'it's probably an eyelash.'"

Her mother, Christina Beachner, remembered, "And then, when I opened up her eye and saw a tick and all the legs moving I almost fell on the floor."

When she got up she brought Brianna to Frederick Memorial Hospital, hospital staff put some ointment on the bug, a patch on the eye, and said the tick will probably crawl out. It did not. In fact, it crawled in even deeper.

Brianna described, "It felt like pain and when I blinked it really hurt."

By the time the family got to the specialists in Baltimore at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute Tuesday, the tick was more than 60 percent buried in her eye. None of the doctors had ever seen anything like it before except in textbooks. The emergency surgery to remove it though was fairly simple.

"When it came out I was like oh my gosh that little thing was in my eye that can't be it cause it was like hurting like pain," said Brianna.

The story has a happy ending. Brianna's vision is fine. There is only a little swelling of her eye. She even has the bug in a bottle. She gave it a name, too: Hurt.

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