KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI — A woman from Kansas City got the shock of her life when doctors informed her that a poisonous spider was living in her ear.<br /><br />Susie Torres told 41 Action News that she heard "swooshing" water sounds in her left ear when she woke up in the morning last week.<br /><br />As the sound wasn't going away, she decided to pay a visit to the hospital. A medical assistant first checked her ear and immediately ran out the door.<br /><br />She returned with a few other medical personnel and told Susie that there was a spider in her ear. More specifically, it was a venomous brown recluse spider.<br /><br />Susie was shocked. She told the news channel that she never knew spiders would crawl into someone's ear or any other part of the body.<br /><br />The doctors then used their tools and pulled the spider out of the woman's ear. Luckily for Suzie, the doctors told her the poisonous spider hadn't bitten her.<br /><br />According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a brown recluses' venom is able to destroy a person's skin tissue and can cause severe bruises.<br /><br />Suzie said she isn't taking any chances and is now putting cotton balls in her ear before going to bed.
