Strange things found on (or in) a pt.

Blee O'Myacin, BSN, RN · May 1, 2008

When I was a student, I pulled back a patient's sheet to do my assessment and he had been eating milk duds, and had spilled them all over himself and the bed. Needless to say, I didn't think they were milk duds at first glance. (Who would??)

I found a grocery bag and some newspapers in a patient's butt crack.

And the handful of accidental slip and falls that result in foreign objects like lighbulbs and small electronics getting stuck in rectums.

Blee

scattycarrot, BSN, RN · May 1, 2008

Elderly guy presented with a pretty much necrotic member and scrotum after applying a padlock and being unable to get it off. Quite sad really as they couldn't save his family jewels.

The small furry animal thing.....defo not an urban legend. People are strange!

grandee3 · May 1, 2008

I love the Saturday Night Live ER skit (with the guy who always seems to fall or sit on something strange). I'm from Louisiana and can't spell Achfalaya--Achf----oh, what ever. I love the old lady too, always stealing something and telling what she's going to do with it.

I needed a good laugh today, thanks! :lol2:

squeakykitty · May 1, 2008

Weapons of all sorts.

As for the weapons, I thought it would be somewhat common, at least in some areas. I guess ER nurses have seen all sorts of strange stuff.

nursetims · May 1, 2008

HAHAH! yes! Apalachin ER. Oh that is the BEST skit on SNL ever!

rentalnurse, RN · May 1, 2008

was cathing a lg lady and 2 of us had to hold legs up and out pops a cheeto, guess she was saving it for a snack later

fireshifter · May 1, 2008

How about a Christmas tree ornament in the folds of fat underneath a breast of a lady who had been passed out in her house for several hours. It was in the middle of July in Nebraska and she had no air conditioning. Pretty nasty.

These last three were from when I worked as an EMT in the ER two days a week and the other five days, I worked in a max security prison.

A bic pen stuck in a p*nis, cap-first. The cap fell off when they pulled the pen out and we had to wait around before sending him to surg to see if he could "pee" it out.

A small pistol in a rectum.

An inmate who decided that taking small bits of wood, rolling the bits into balls on the concrete, slicing along the sides of his, um, p*nis, inserting the balls, sewing up the "incision" with dental floss and waiting a week to pull his pants down to show the female lieutenant, saying, "I thought it was a good idea, that the ladies would like it." It was pretty nasty and I saw him in the ER that week after hearing about it at the prison.

Those are the ones that stick out from 7 years ago. Wonder why.

Jen D.

Anagray, BSN · May 2, 2008

when I worked on medsurg I cared for a mentally unstable patient who came in with abdominal fistula that "developed" at home p hernia repair. when she went for an abdominal x-ray on the day of admit they found approximately 30 sewing needles that the patient has been sticking inside her abdominal incision after she has been discharged the first time.

oahugirl · May 2, 2008

The end of a curtain rod in a male's rectum. I've seen SEVERAL vibrators lodged into rectums, one of which had to be surgicaly removed!

patrice meursault · May 2, 2008

True story, a while back a Rad Tech called me to the view room to show me xrays of my very obese patient on the view board. They shot each quadrant and posted them next to each other. She pointed to a rectangular shaped box whited out in the RUQ xray. She inquired as if this were a new AICD/Pacer or some other new medical gadget. She had me wondering, no wires leading from it, had me stumped.

I went back to the pt who denied ever having any surgeries in the past. So I lifted up some of the folds in the RUQ and out fell a tv remote control!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The patient was so happy as she said "I lost that thing two weeks ago, I forgot I put it there!!!

Diary/Dairy, RN · May 2, 2008

OMG what is wrong with these people???

I am sooooo not eating Cheetoes anytime soon.

I did hear at college, a larger girl went swimming at the beach, when she got into the shower, she lifted her belly to get cleaned and a fish fell out. I did not know her too well and was embarassed to ask about it.

rph3664 · May 2, 2008

a woman had wrecked her car into a tree. when we arrived the police and firefighters had formed a cordon around the victim, who was on the side of the road, ambulatory and completely naked. She kept pointing at the tree and yelling "I want that man arrested!" (minor damage, subsequently was found to have no closed head injury and extensive mental hx) When we were immobilizing her, I asked if she had any ID and she put her fingers into her lady parts, producing 23 cents in change. I said "thank you" and put it in a specimen bag. We tried to get the security guards at the hospital to log it but they would have NOTHING to do with it!!
that's about the weirdest thing...but I have heard a radiography student ask how a man had "sat on a pickle".
another time a man at a frat/keg party put his member through a ribeye steak bone on a dare, where it became engorged and trapped. He showed up at the ER with a pitched tent and about 100+ onlookers, the MD took one look at it and requested the bone saw. The man freaked and thought they were going to cut his member off, he started running around the ER with the steak bone still stuck. Eventually he was restrained by some unhappy security guards and it was explained that the saw was for the bone and NOT him.

My 8-year-old niece wants to be a doctor. She devours age-appropriate medical books and her heroes are Hannah Montana and Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman physician. One of the resident physicians told me that her then-8-year-old daughter thought she wanted to be a doctor too, "until she found out that doctors have to stick their fingers up people's butts."

:lol2:

We have all agreed that my niece can find that out on her own, and things like this post too.