This swimmer had earache not knowing a spider was living in her

Eugh!

I remember just last week when someone gave me this gist about a family friend who has cockroach living in her ear and didn't know until she went to ENT to treat the accompanying pain.

This is a similar story, a spider this time.

Victoria Price, 42, from Porthcawl, Wales, suffered earache after swimming in the Newport Beach and thought it was due to a perforated eardrum or an infection. 

She filled her ear with cotton wool, but still, the pain persisted. Asking her husband to check for infection, he remarked: 'There's something alive in there'.

The beach

In hospital, a nurse removed a live, wriggling spider (inset) with forceps and said it was 'twice the size it looked'. 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.'