Doctors remove spider hiding in woman’s ear canal

, Yahoo! News ^ | , Aug 9, 2012.. | By Eric Pfeiffer

[BenLurkin]

woman who went to China's Changsha Central Hospital complaining of itching in the left side of her head was told by doctors that the source of irritation was a spider that had been living inside her ear canal for five days.

Doctors reportedly used a saline solution to flush out the spider in order to avoid having the spider burrow deeper inside the canal or bite her.

The flushing technique was successful and the woman reportedly wept with gratitude after being told the spider was removed. Doctors say they believe the spider entered the woman's home while the home was undergoing renovations, and crawled into her ear while she was sleeping.

A report by CNN states that spiders and other bugs are appearing in greater numbers this summer due to warm weather and drought conditions across the U.S.

[chesley]

So spiders eat insects, flies and such.

What was it eating in there?

[Calvin Locke]

I was 12 or 13 when that epi debuted. A couple of weeks or so later, I was on my bike, and a damn bug flew directly into my ear.

I hopped off the bike, and when it wouldn't come out shaking and hopping, I ripped a leaf off a tree branch, and used the stem to run around the opening.

It worked.

That reinforced the epi in my mind...

[Texas Songwriter]

Sorry about your CLL. Hope it i responsive to treatment. You really don't sound like you were one of the bad guys. You just hung around some of them. Life is short isn't it? So much consternation when what most of us want peace of mind.

Let me ask you. If I simplify the past decade in my mind it seems the whole of the financial collapse developed as the 'too-big-to-fail' banks engaged in the gambling cover with the derivitives debaucle came to life as the AIG derivitives were called upon to actualize from notional values as counterparties made claims on the derivitive agreements. AIG could not perform on their agreements and the dominoes fell, only stopping with the injection of 600 billion to Goldman, AIG, and heaven knows who else.

Anyway, I hope the CLL is in remission or better cured. Good luck to you.

[a fool in paradise]

SPIDER PING

At least it'll keep the cockroaches out of her ear.

[Slings and Arrows]

[Focault's Pendulum]

I think the Actor was Lawrence Harvey.

It was.