Female Half vindicated by spider story

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on May 7th, 2007

There’s a much read, much-emailed story going around the WWW– an AP story about doctors finding a pair of spiders living in the ear of an Oregon boy.

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.”

The Female Half is feeling much better, though. Just a couple of years back, she complained for about two weeks about a scratching sound in her ear. The Male Half advised her to flush out the ear using a bulb syringe. When she did so, she spotted what looked like a dead lady bug in the shower, at her feet, heading for the drain. She picked it up and put it aside, keeping it as proof that there had indeed been an obstruction. It dried off and flew away, no doubt with a belly full of yummy ear wax!

No one believed her. Her contention– that she was host to a live ladybug in her ear canal for a fortnight– was dismissed.

This creepy AP story brings her relief yet again. Says she: “At least I had a cute bug in my ear!”

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