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Taiwan doctors remove small spider from woman's ear canal
UPI ^ | 27 October 2023 | By Ben Hooper

Posted on 10/27/2023 6:51:27 AM PDT by Red Badger

Oct. 26 (UPI) -- A 64-year-old woman in Taiwan who heard clicking and rustling sounds for several days turned out to have a small spider in her ear canal, doctors said.

Dr. Tengchin Wang, director of the otolaryngology department at Tainan Municipal Hospital, co-wrote a case report for the New England Journal of Medicine detailing the case of a woman who sought treatment in April.

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Wang said the woman complained of a feeling of movement inside her ear as well as clicking and rustling sounds that prevented her from sleeping for several nights.

Doctors looked into the woman's ear and discovered a small spider and its discarded exoskeleton inside the woman's ear. They used a suction tube to remove the arachnid and its exoskeleton.

Wang said the woman did not feel any pain from the spider's presence because it was only 2 to 3 millimeters in size -- about .08 to .1 inches.


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To: Red Badger

Man if I was on a ladder and a spider was inside my ear, I’d probably fell


21 posted on 10/27/2023 8:14:15 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Earwigs are really bad. One crawled into my ear when I was living in a basement in college. Only thing that got it out was pouring rubbing alcohol into my ear. Slept with ear plugs from then on.


22 posted on 10/27/2023 8:31:11 AM PDT by Hazwaste (Socialists are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: gitmo

Same here, except I was in Haiti on a mission trip. The nurse on our team did not believe me either. 🙄


23 posted on 10/27/2023 8:35:43 AM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: Red Badger
'Boris the Spider' by The Who

Look, he's crawling up my wall
Black and hairy, very small
Now he's up above my head
Hanging by a little thread

Boris the spider
Boris the spider

Now he's dropped on to the floor
Heading for the bedroom door
Maybe he's as scared as me
Where's he gone now? I can't see

Boris the spider
Boris the spider

Creepy, crawly, creepy, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly

There he is, wrapped in a ball
Doesn't seem to move at all
Perhaps he's dead, I'll just make sure
Pick this book up off the floor

Boris the spider
Boris the spider

Creepy, crawly, creepy, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly

He's come to a sticky end (Creepy, crawly)
Don't think he will ever mend (Creepy, crawly)
Never more will he crawl 'round (Creepy, crawly)
He's embedded in the ground (Creepy, crawly)

Boris the spider
Boris the spider

24 posted on 10/27/2023 8:43:24 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Red Badger

“...there’s something inside my head but it ain’t me.”

Look at Biden, you can be president.

wy69


25 posted on 10/27/2023 8:51:48 AM PDT by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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To: Red Badger

And along came a spider and sat down inside her.


26 posted on 10/27/2023 8:54:25 AM PDT by Revel
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To: Red Badger

Reminds me of the time I went to the ear doctor to find out why I couldn’t hear anything in my right (my good) ear. The doctor looked and told me there was a suppository in the ear canal. I told the doctor I just figured out where I put the hearing aid.


27 posted on 10/27/2023 8:55:54 AM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: Sir Bangaz Cracka

I can top you all. Years ago working as an MA, our doc dealt with huge dead moth embeded in earwax and a candle in and up the rear.


28 posted on 10/27/2023 10:50:11 AM PDT by amihow (It is Western Civilization that confers privilege, not whiteness. Ask Carson, MLK, Sowell.)
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