Woman who was suffering headaches had a spider nestled in her ear [video]

Anyone who, like the writer, is scared of spiders probably shouldn't watch this video, as a doctor coaxes a spider out of a woman's ear canal.

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A woman, named only as Lekshmi L., visited her doctor in India because she was suffering from a severe headache and tingling sensation in her head. Lekshmi lives in India and had reportedly fallen asleep on her veranda. When she awoke, she felt a painful blockage in her right ear. 

When the doctor examined her, he made the shocking discovery that a spider was living inside her ear. Dr. Santosh Shivaswamy of the Columbia Hospital then used a light to slowly coax the eight-legged critter out of her ear canal. Dr. Shivaswamy filmed as the spider slowly emerges, revealing its horrific little face to the world.

As noted by the New York Post, Dr. Shivaswamy said it’s pretty common for people to visit the emergency room due to the presence of a foreign object in their ear. He said it is a simply procedure to remove those objects.

 “However, when a living insect makes its way inside a human ear, the patient’s anxiety makes it difficult to continue the procedure,” he added, saying it was a rare experience to see a live spider moving around inside someone’s ear canal.

As for Lekshmi, she was naturally terrified when she could feel the movement of the spider in her ear. However the acute earache she was experiencing, followed by sharp pains was so uncomfortable that she couldn’t think of anything and had to get the doctor to do something about it.

However, she added she was petrified when the doctor confirmed there was a spider in her ear. What happened to the little arachnid after its removal is not reported.

Anyone brave enough can watch the little critter emerging from her ear in the video below.

Monkey doctoring: Primate recussitates electrocuted friend (Video)

It happened in the railway station in the northern Indian city of Kanpur Sunday.  A monkey was electrocuted while running across a high voltage power cable on the train tracks and lost consciousness. His friend saved his life.

In fact his friend showed remarkable intelligence by saving the monkey's life.  He first bit the stunned animal repeatedly and then dipped him in a pool of water on the tracks to resuscitate his him.  Looks like it worked, as while the monkey looks rather dazed, he was conscious and survived the experience.  Watch it all happen in the video below:

Five elephants killed by passenger train in east India

Five elephants, part of a herd crossing railroad tracks in the Rambha forest area of east India, were killed when a passenger train plowed into them. 

RN Mohapatra, a railways spokesman, said the incident happened early on Sunday. 

The Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Express train was traveling in the Rambha forest area, approximately 180km (110 miles) south of Bhubaneshwar, the capital of the state of Orissa, and about 45 km (28 miles) from Berhampur, when it encountered the herd crossing the tracks.  

Forest officials say that the accident could have resulted from poor visibility caused by foggy conditions in the area. 

The train was damaged in the accident and rail services in the area were delayed for around seven hours. 

Chief conservator of the state's wildlife department, JD Sharma, has accused the railroad authorities of ignoring his department's warnings that trains should slow down, due to a herd of elephants moving in the area. However, Mohapatra said that the warning came too late.

In recent years, dozens of elephants have been killed after being struck by trains when crossing railroad tracks, which often run through national parks and forests. The wild elephant population in India was recently estimated to be only around 26,000.

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