Happened all the time at the hospital ER in which I worked for 20 years.But it wasn’t spiders,it was cockroaches.In fact,I learned what the Spanish word “ccokaracha†(? spelling) was that way.I was absolutely *new* in the ER when one night a woman came to the desk,pointed to her ear,and said “cookarachaâ€.I asked the charge nurse what a “ccokaracha†was and she said “it’s a cockroach†and I replied “well,there’s a woman here with one inn her earâ€.Forty years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday (like many other things I saw there).
You can kill them by flooding your ear with baby oil or the like. Still have get someone to flush them out but at least they stop moving around in there.
Several years back a new neighbor moved in who was an emergency medicine physician at Johns Hopkins. Once we started hanging out with her and her husband I asked if she was getting tired of treating all the knife, gun and general beating injuries. Very much unexpected was her answer that what she was really getting weary of was treating folks with cockroaches in their ear canals. I’d never heard of such a thing but she said it was very routine in inner city Baltimore.