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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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No, brown recluse are all over the country. They have them up in Illinois, and we have them in Oklahoma. I’ve killed several in my house.
Don’t doubt you had spiders, but brown recluse don’t build webs. They’re hunter spiders that jump out and grab their prey. ;)
My cousin lived in New Jersey for a few years. She said they slept with cotton stuffed in their ears, to keep cockroaches from crawling in their ears.
The state food of Oklahoma is grease. ;D
LOL! One of my favorite scenes in one of my favorite movies! “Son...did you know you have a panty on your head?”
Now I will need to add Q tips by the nighstand.
The husband of a former co-worker was bitten my a recluse - dang near lost his hand.
There was a veil web behind our toilet where the brown recluse was living. The ‘webs’ in our garage were basically a long string with stuff hanging down. When the one behind the toilet was dead, we never again saw one inside. We had an exterminator spray the garage and never had another problem. So, not a real ‘web’ but definitely lightweight veils. And I saw the dead one from behind the toilet and it had the violin on it’s back.
EEWWWW...unbearable to live like that!
I’m in Portland and apparently some spider bit me...Monday I had 3 bites - a big one on my left arm, one on my neck and another one. The one on my arm really blew up ...swelling is mostly down now but I can feel it a little lumpy under my skin. Must have been while I was sleeping.
Flies, Fleas, Ticks, Fire Ants, Cockroach’s;Most Lawyers;Most Politicans,irs,batfe,fbi,cia,deep state,bad cops,demonratcommiescumbags,terrorscum,...?
I know I’m missing some but can’t think of them at the moment.
My Brother HATES Spiders and Webs so much that while He’s in the Woods Hunting He takes a forked stick to hold in front as He walks. If there’s a Web with a Spider He’s been known to blast it with a 12GA Shotgun. I think that is a bit of overkill and a waste of Ammo.
.....and don’t forget about the duct tape if you
need to get up & go. In fact, a preliminary waxing
may be in order for the ladies....
not to mention a BIG warning to the deer...
“No, brown recluse are all over the country. They have them up in Illinois, and we have them in Oklahoma. I’ve killed several in my house.”
I guess I was thinking about the desert recluse.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loxosceles_deserta
Probably should have it looked at, if it doesn’t improve soon. :)
I forgot to mention it’s while Squirrel hunting. He does Bow and Crossbow for SwishB.
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