Because you wanted to be apprised that you misssed this one about a possum-eating a Spider in Tasmania.
As Laz said, Every single thing in Australia is designed to kill you.
Posted on 08/23/2019 2:09:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Doctors in Kansas City, Missouri, pulled a venomous brown recluse spider out of Torres' ear, and somehow, she kept her cool.
But she's never sleeping without earplugs again. She woke up Wednesday morning with popping and swishing sounds in her ear. She decided to check it out after work, though she didn't think much of it at first, she said.
A medical assistant examined Torres' ear, then ran out of the room to grab more sets of eyes. Soon, two nurses, three medical students and a doctor joined the assistant in the tiny exam room to break the news--a spider had set up shop in her ear canal.
Remarkably, she stayed calm, even with the knowledge that a skittering spider was squatting in her head, she said.
"Seeing the instruments they were going to put in my ear started to make me panic," she said.
The doctor flushed her ear with water, but it didn't budge.
After a few more tries, the doctor pulled it out in one piece and laid it out, legs flayed. They determined the invader to be a brown recluse spider, a nocturnal spider that can inject victims with a venomous fluid if it bites, she said.
"The nurses said it was dead, but they might've just said that so I wouldn't freak out," she said.
In some sort of miracle, the team informed her the arachnid skated down her ear canal without so much as a bite, she said.
She thinks it might have entered her ear while she was sleeping, so now she doesn't take any chances. She bought ear plugs shortly after her ordeal ended.
"I just didn't think it was possible for them to come inside the ear," she said. "Who would've thought?"
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I may never get a good night’s sleep in my life after this.
“The Earwig” episode.
Battled these cursed arachnids for about two years around 10 years ago. Truly hard to fight since most chemicals don’t work. Used glue traps and rid my home them. From what I understand doing research when trying to get rid of them, 90% of their bites, don’t amount to much more than a mosquito bite. Still paranoid of the little $#!^$.
Yeah...that sounds right. omg I just remember the guy screaming in agony as the thing ate through his brain; then when it came out, he was told that he was one of the few that actually lived through that...but that the spider was a female that laid eggs. iirc that’s when the screaming started again. :O
They are really small and really fast. Speaking from experience. I was bitten on my back; the itching nearly drove me nuts. I asked a co-worker to look at the bite and she said GO TO THE DR. The bite looks like a target. After a few days the tissue starts dying. I went to a walk in clinic, they cut out the bite mark, dressed the wound and said not to take a shower for 24 hours and then put me on antibiotics for 10 days. The things I went through for those 48 hours before going to the Dr were the things of which nightmares are made.
Know them all too well. Have them in our home.
We’ve dusted to get rid of them....but the best way to get ‘em are sticky traps.
I have a species which looks almost just like that. I looked it up on internet and the only difference I could find are mine has small spikes on it’s legs.
Also the brown recluse can be killed by simply spraying it with water. The ones in my house don’t mind water. They even have the violin shape.
So do black widows. We have those, too.
I don’t understand why anyone would voluntarily live south of Connecticut or west of the Hudson river.
Because you wanted to be apprised that you misssed this one about a possum-eating a Spider in Tasmania.
As Laz said, Every single thing in Australia is designed to kill you.
I remember that. And, that’s exactly how it went.
That sounds terrible. I think I might need a Benadryl to sleep tonight...
What if the next one crawls into her “hidey hole” in the front?
One of Rod Serling's best Night Gallery episodes.
I had a cockroach go in my ear while sleeping (in MO). The sound/feeling is like when water goes in your ear—but it doesn’t stop. My first thought was I was having a stroke. Realized something was in there moving about. First instinct was a Q-Tip, but that didn’t work. Then I remembered something about trying a bright light. Shone the flashlight into my ear and out it came. I tell people I could see the shadow of the roach on the wall opposite.
Like you, going to back to sleep was elusive.
Try olive oil next time. I guarantee no critter is going to stick around in that.
Naw...you don’t wanna look up pics of bites.
I got bit on the left fore arm last summer while doing a wood fence job. I remembered brushing a bug off my arm and it sticking, but didn’t pay attention to it.
That was Saturday.
Sunday, I got really sick.
Tuesday a boil popped up.
Thursday morning the boil turned into a dime sized hole.
That’s when I went to er. I had started antibiotics the day before, and that’s what kept mine from getting bad.
The er doc scraped and cleaned the wound, which had began to eat into my bone. Had it done so, it woulda been bad.
Been through much worse, but its not something I wanna relive.
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