Bunbury local Dylan Thomas’ first trip to Bali last weekend was complete with a visit to the Bali International Medical Centre to have a tropical spider pulled out of his stomach.
Dylan, 21, awoke after a quiet night in his four and a half star hotel room to find a bizarre red trail two inches from his navel and heading upwards.
“It was as if someone had scratched me with the tip of a knife,” he said.
Later that evening, the trail had moved two or three inches higher.
When a concerned Dylan fronted up to the doctors early on Sunday morning, they told him it was a small insect bite, and gave him some antihistamine cream to rub on the red line.
The burrow line started to blister
The burrow line started to blister
Later that morning he awoke to blisters.
“That’s when it became painful, it was a searing burn,” he said.
He finally saw a dermatologist on Monday, who told him that it was something out of the ordinary.
Doctors extracted a tropical spider that had burrowed itself into the scar from Dylan’s recent appendix removal.
“It was a bit bigger than the size of a match head,” he said.
Dylan now has a reminder of his holiday in Bali
Dylan now has a reminder of his holiday in Bali
He has now earnt himself the nickname Spider-man.
“It takes a lot to deter me, but I do feel violated. It was a very bizarre experience just to know something like that was in my body for a couple of days,” Dylan said.
The doctors put the spider in a container and took it away for testing.
jealous of that spider 
WTF. I knew there was a parasite/helminth who did that, but a spider!?
