Brantford woman almost dies from swallowing spider while sleeping

A Brantford residence has had a near fatal death when she realize she swallowed a spider while sleeping. Jo Lavoie of Brantford woke up around 3 a.m. choking and coughed up a huge spider. After she posted it on Facebook about her incident she was so panic-stricken that she scared herself almost to death.. if it wasn’t for her mouth being open so much this tragedy could have been prevented.