[UA] They were walking on my eardrums

[Tim Bisaillon]

ALBANY, Ore. (AP) -- A 9-year-old boy who complained of an earache was a 
little surprised when the doctor told him that a pair of spiders had tried 
to make a home out of him.

"They were walking on my eardrums," said Jesse Courtney.

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" -- before the earache sent them 
to the doctor.

Dr. David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when 
he examined him, but he could not immediately identify it. So he irrigated 
the ear, and 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.

Irvine said it was a first for him as a physician.

"It was the only time I ever pulled out an invertebrate," he said.

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.

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_050607_news_spider_earache.3faa8ff4.html

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