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.
“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. Cue more panic.
“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?”
Brown recluse spiders are scary and serious
Their bite is rarely fatal, but it’s best to seek immediate help once a bite is spotted. The dark, central area of the rash that surrounds the bite is what causes tissue to die, and doctors can stop its spread with antibiotics, Neelendra Joshi, assistant professor at the University of Arkansas’ department of entomology, told CNN in 2018.
Source : CNN