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Doctor finds spiders in ear of Oregon boy with earache
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003696536_spiders07.html
DAVID PATTON / AP
Jesse Courtney, 9, of Albany, Ore., displays the two spiders that were removed Friday from his 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 ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders had made a home in the ear.
"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 that when he examined the boy it looked as if he had something in his ear.
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. 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.
Copyright © 2007 The Seattle Times Company
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003696536_spiders07.html
DAVID PATTON / AP
Jesse Courtney, 9, of Albany, Ore., displays the two spiders that were removed Friday from his 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 ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders had made a home in the ear.
"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 that when he examined the boy it looked as if he had something in his ear.
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. 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.
Copyright © 2007 The Seattle Times Company
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