Doctor finds spiders in boy's ear
ALBANY, Ore. - These guys weren't exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop. What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear - "like Rice Krispies" - ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.
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"They were walking on my eardrums," Jesse Courtney said.
One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal. His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear - "like Rice Krispies."
Dr. David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when he examined him.
When he irrigated the ear, the first spider came out, dead. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser.
Jesse was given the spiders - now both dead - as a souvenir. He has taken them to school and his mother has taken them to work.
"It was real interesting, 'cause, two spiders in my ear - what next?" Jesse said.
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"They were walking on my eardrums," Jesse Courtney said.
One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal. His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear - "like Rice Krispies."
Dr. David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when he examined him.
When he irrigated the ear, the first spider came out, dead. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser.
Jesse was given the spiders - now both dead - as a souvenir. He has taken them to school and his mother has taken them to work.
"It was real interesting, 'cause, two spiders in my ear - what next?" Jesse said.
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I have had...Ohhh never mind.[:D]
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It was beans, right Trinity? 0 -
I've heard of that before, used to be one of my phobias when i was a little kid[xx(], [^] I grew out of it, but he doesn't[:D] 0 -
My Pop used to say thing like "Boy, Do you have a brain or in it just cobwebs up there". I guess with this kid we now know the answer. 0 -
This is just great.... now I'm sitting here in my office all paranoid with wadded up Post-its sticking out of my ears. [:0][:p] 0 -
It was TICKS, yea ticks that was what it was...[:o)]
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Had something sorta like this happen when I was 7-8 years old.
I was out riding my bicycle under the streetlight one summer evening with the neighborhood kids and a bug flew into my ear. Same as this kid described, I could hear him tromping around in there. Pretty freaky. I ran home to momma, and after a bit of convincing her I was serious she called up our doctor at home (this was a long time ago!).
The ol' school doc clarified this bug had been flying around a light at night and accidentally ended up in there, then told my mom to just darken the room and hold a bright light near my ear. She held a lamp beside my head for a minute or two and the bug crawled out toward the light. Problem solved.
Nowadays this would've probably meant several hours at the ER and a few hundred dollars.0
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