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At 4 am I was suddenly woken up by a loud scratching sound in my ear.  As I lay awake for the next hour I tried to figure out what the sound was that I kept hearing.  Finally it stopped and I went back to sleep.  When I woke up at 7 the sound was back again.  As I told Jimmie what happened and that he needed to suction my ear with the baby bulb syringe he thought I was crazy but was willing to help.  To my relief nothing came out.  So he joked that if my ear kept bugging me to go in to the doctor so I didn't become one of those stories where some bug laid eggs in their head.  I smirked trying to laugh along, but really wondered if something had made a new home in me. 

Until lunch time I kept hearing the loud scratching sound off and on and had pressure on the outside of my eardrum.  I was wondering now if I was going crazy.  Was this just a weird sound I was imaging?  I sat down around noon to check my email when the sound began again and my ear felt itchy.  As I had done all morning long with no success, I again used my nail to try to scrape something out but this time I saw a little bit of wax and 2 spider legs!  Yuck!! I screamed and quickly grabbed the bulb syring as I suctioned as hard as I could.  Nothing else came out so now I am wondering if the spider is still hiding inside, if I killed it and my ear is now a tomb, or if I decapitated two of its legs as it came out. 

I called my neighbor who is a nurse and asked if she had an otoscope to look in my ear to see what was left behind, but to my dismay she didn't have one.  So I went to the doctor where he came in the room laughing when he saw what I was in for.  He checked my ear and luckily it was clear with no carcus or offspring left behind.  He then asked if I had seen some black hairs and mistaken them for spider legs.  Sorry Dr, the legs I saw weren't black...they had joints and were tan with brown stripes.