Funniest injury you have ever seen.....

redhd5 · Jun 21, 2004

I don't know that this was funny, but it was weird. I had a guy several years ago at the nursing home that came in with staples up and down his arm and hand. The staples went way up past his elbow. He was also in isolation. I was a CNA at the time. I asked him what happened, and he said that he was fishing off the coast of Florida and a big fish came up and bit his arm open. They didn't know what kind of fish it was. He had stretched his arm out over the boat and it just came up out of the water!

He said he loved to fish, and since he recently retired, that was what he planned on doing!

stevierae · Jun 21, 2004

I don't know that this was funny, but it was weird. I had a guy several years ago at the nursing home that came in with staples up and down his arm and hand. The staples went way up past his elbow. He was also in isolation. I was a CNA at the time. I asked him what happened, and he said that he was fishing off the coast of Florida and a big fish came up and bit his arm open. They didn't know what kind of fish it was. He had stretched his arm out over the boat and it just came up out of the water!
He said he loved to fish, and since he recently retired, that was what he planned on doing!

What the hey? What kind of fish have TEETH? Must have been a shark!!!

critcarenurse16 · Jun 21, 2004

I don't know that this was funny, but it was weird. I had a guy several years ago at the nursing home that came in with staples up and down his arm and hand. The staples went way up past his elbow. He was also in isolation. I was a CNA at the time. I asked him what happened, and he said that he was fishing off the coast of Florida and a big fish came up and bit his arm open. They didn't know what kind of fish it was. He had stretched his arm out over the boat and it just came up out of the water!
He said he loved to fish, and since he recently retired, that was what he planned on doing!

Discharge instructions: Avoid using extremeties as bait, pole, and net:rotfl:

gwenith, BSN, RN · Jun 21, 2004

without appearing to laugh at the misfortune of others i offer this gem from downunder. a bit of translation a "redback" is the australian term for a black widow spider.

redback on the toilet seat (1972)

ralph ernest 'slim' newton

there was a redback on the toilet seat, when i was there last night

i didn't see him in the dark, but boy i felt his bite.

i jumped high up into the air and when i hit the ground

that crafty redback spider, wasn't nowhere to be found.

i rushed into the missus, told her just where i'd been bit

she grabbed the cut-throat razor blade, and i nearly took a fit.

i said, "just forget what's on your mind and call the doctor, please,

'cause i've got a feeling that your cure is worse than the disease."

chorus: there was a redback on the toilet seat, when i was there last night

i didn't see him in the dark, but boy i felt his bite.

and now i'm here in hospital, a sad and sorry site

and i curse the redback spider, on the toilet seat last night.

i can't lie down, i can't sit up and i don't know what to do

and all the nurses think it's funny, but that's not my point of view.

i tell you it's embarrassing and that to say the least

that i'm too sick to eat a bit, while that spider had a feast.

and when i get back home again, i'll tell you what i'll do

i'll make that redback suffer, for the pain i'm going through.

i've had so many needles, that i'm looking like a sieve

and i promise you that spider, hasn't very long to live.

http://home.iprimus.com.au/michellejbailey/songs.htm#redback

Farkinott, RN · Jun 21, 2004

I sat on a brown snake once. I don't know who was more surprised! It shot off in one direction and I went in the other!

Jay-Jay, RN · Jun 21, 2004

We had a guy on homecare last Christmas, who was on IV antibiotics and BID dressing changes. He'd caught his member in his zipper!

I also nursed a cop who'd cut his hand on a broken mug while doing dishes. He was on 2 different IV abx. Boy, I'll be the guys at the station got a lot of mileage out of that when he went back to work! :chuckle

teeituptom, BSN, RN · Jun 21, 2004

we had a teenage boy and girl come in by ems for getting their braces stuck together.

Father of the girl came in before the Doc got them unhooked

The father wasnt amused as we were

kids · Jun 21, 2004

I saw this a few years ago while sitting in the ER waiting area. I have no clue why I was there (if you knew my kids you would understand, we've been there a lot).

Anyway, we ended up striking up a conversation with the lady sitting next to us.

She was there with her husband who was in back, being treated.

Apparently, they were having a "heated" discussion while eating Chinese and he bit off the end of his tongue.

When they were leaving I heard her laugh and said something to the effect of "thats what you get for arguing with me". She chuckled all the way out the door with him saying..."thut up, juth thut up".

BBFRN, BSN, PhD · Jun 21, 2004

A long time ago, I had a teenage male GSW pt who had been shot in the buttocks. What had happened to him was that he was driving on a country road at about dusk, and had to urinate. So, he got out at the side of the road and proceeded to take a leak. Apparently, a hunter had mistaken his shiny white booty as a deer's and accidentally shot him with a rifle. He then drove home, rang the doorbell, and passed out when his parents answered the door. He was quite a prankster, so they though he was playing another trick on them and closed the door- left him out there for a few minutes before they realized he wasn't faking it...lol.

Jolie, BSN · Jun 21, 2004

I'll add my own injury so you can chuckle at my expense. I went to the local ER just last month with a dislocated knee caused by a collision with my dog. He is a cattle herder, and apparently mistook me for a cow.

Long Term Care Columnist / Guide · Jun 21, 2004

I took care of a 72-year-old man once who had accidentally shot out his kneecap while cleaning his .22. He'd had a few beers too many, and for some reason thought it was a good time to clean and oil all the guns in the house. Good thing he never got to the AK-47 that he kept in the hall closet......... :uhoh21: