A 42 year old woman named Victoria Price who has been experiencing pains
in her ear after going swimming in the sea was horrified when a nurse pulled a
live spider out of her ear days later.
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| Victoria Price |
Victoria Price, 42, had just returned home from a quick dip in the sea
when she began suffering horrendous earache.
The mother, from Porthcawl, Wales, according to dailymail thought she
might have an infection or perforated it - but it turned out to be something
far more terrifying. After a visit to accident and emergency, a nurse discovered a
'chunky'spider had crawled into her ear.
She pulled out the 'live, wriggly' creature, remarking that it was 'twice
as big as it first looked'.
'I got out of the shower [when I got home] and the pain in my ear was
just incredible,' said Mrs Price.
'I was Irish dancing around the bathroom. I didn't know what to do with
myself.
'I assumed I had trapped water or I'd perforated an eardrum or
something.
'The first thing I did was reach for cotton wool, because you think if
it's water that will absorb it.
'As soon as I put the cotton wool in it was quite a bit better but
throughout the night it came and went. I didn't sleep very much.'
Mrs Price was swimming in Newton Beach, Porthcawl (pictured) and her
earache began when she returned home to show. She believes the spider must have
been nestled in the hood of her jumper
She said: ‘She took the cotton wool out, shone in the light and said
“okay” and then went off to find someone who would take it out.’
Sarah Gaze, emergency nurse practitioner at the hospital, had to
overcome her own squeamishness while she dragged the creature out using
forceps.
Ms Gaze said: ‘It was very straightforward. The spider was visible in
Victoria’s inner ear and it came out quite easily.
‘But it was alive and very wriggly.
‘It was quite big too. It must have been twice as big as it first
looked.
It was alive and very wriggly
Sarah Gaze, emergency nurse practitioner
‘Victoria was very brave – braver than me. I didn’t find it a pleasant
experience at all but it was my job so I had to overcome my fear.’
Mrs Price now has her own theory as to how the arachnid got in her ear
in the first place.
She said: ‘When I went to get changed in the cabin and put my hoodie on,
the spider must have been in the hood and got into my hair.
‘When I went into the shower the first thing it wanted to do is find
somewhere warm and dry so it went into my ear.
‘I think the pain must have been him dancing on my eardrum and the
gurgling was him moving around.
‘With the cotton wool in, it was dark so I think he’d calmed down a lot
and every now and then he tried to escape by running around a lot, and that was
the pain.’
Fortunately an examination showed the spider had not caused any
problems.
Mrs Price said: ‘There was no further damage – or any eggs laid, as
everyone keeps asking me.
Source link: dailymail
