[Diahni]

Originally Posted by ssouthernyankee

Diahni, I use to work @ a school that a very high % of students were poverty stricken we use to send home bottles of shampoo with green tree tea oil mixed in. It worked well at preventing reinfestation, most kids we treated at school when lice was discovered and we used a little stronger mixture of the tea oil/ shampoo and it too worked well.

wow - that's good to know! tea oil! The pesticide shampoo give me the creeps!
thanks,
Diahni

[Xxentrick]

Wish I could have seen the maggots dancing....
thanks for sharing this one

[Diahni]

Originally Posted by Xxentrick

Wish I could have seen the maggots dancing....
thanks for sharing this one

It's been said before but EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW......

[Franemtnurse]

Originally Posted by wishiwereanurse

Oh there was also this one time, when I had rotation in an ER, they brought in a woman with ascaris worms coming out of her nose and throat, she died after a few days...uuuggghhh!!! That one gave me nightmares!

I saw this one. They get in the lungs first and breed there.Now aren't you glad you mentioned it? NOT I know, because I couldn't get my mind off of it for a long time either.

[missnurse1]

Ok so this one is kinda different and kinda sad too but here goes... First I must explain that as well as being an RN I also serve on the local First Responder unit as an EMT. One night at about 2 in the AM we got a call to respond to a residence just outside of town. The wife had called 911 requesting an ambulance for her husband that had not been feeling well for a few days. She said he had not eaten in a while and just wasn't acting like himself. May I also add that she said he had chills and she just couldn't get him warm enough. You may know where Im going with this... When we arrived on the scene we found the man laying on the floor with a schrine of food dishes (full) sitting around him. He truly had not eaten for a while. As you have probably guessed, he was deceased. To make matters worse, his wife, bless her heart, tried to warm him up by keeping the temperature in the house a balmy 90 degrees. Because of the heat and the time that had passed, well...he was very decomposed, was completely soiled with urine and feces and had begun leaking fluid from all over! The smell alone was enough to send several responders outside to "collect themselves." When we had to turn him to get him on the gurney, it was very apparent that he had probably been laying there for several, several days if not longer... Had to take the area rug he was laying on outside as it was completely covered in body fluids. In a wierd sort of way it was sweet though, she loved him literally until the end.

[Franemtnurse]

Originally Posted by missnurse1

Ok so this one is kinda different and kinda sad too but here goes... First I must explain that as well as being an RN I also serve on the local First Responder unit as an EMT. One night at about 2 in the AM we got a call to respond to a residence just outside of town. The wife had called 911 requesting an ambulance for her husband that had not been feeling well for a few days. She said he had not eaten in a while and just wasn't acting like himself. May I also add that she said he had chills and she just couldn't get him warm enough. You may know where Im going with this... When we arrived on the scene we found the man laying on the floor with a schrine of food dishes (full) sitting around him. He truly had not eaten for a while. As you have probably guessed, he was deceased. To make matters worse, his wife, bless her heart, tried to warm him up by keeping the temperature in the house a balmy 90 degrees. Because of the heat and the time that had passed, well...he was very decomposed, was completely soiled with urine and feces and had begun leaking fluid from all over! The smell alone was enough to send several responders outside to "collect themselves." When we had to turn him to get him on the gurney, it was very apparent that he had probably been laying there for several, several days if not longer... Had to take the area rug he was laying on outside as it was completely covered in body fluids. In a wierd sort of way it was sweet though, she loved him literally until the end.

Did she ever. Poor dear.

[Diahni]

Originally Posted by Franemtnurse

Did she ever. Poor dear.

But why didn't she call for help earlier?

[Franemtnurse]

Originally Posted by Diahni

But why didn't she call for help earlier?

Only she knows for sure honey.

[missnurse1]

We were quite confused about why she didn't call for help earlier too but she really just thought he had the flu, I think she may have had alzheimers, she couldn't live alone after he died. Sad... When we would try to ask her which funeral home to call she replied, "you had better ask him, he makes all those kind of decisions." She just really didn't understand.

[amber32123]

Originally Posted by missnurse1

We were quite confused about why she didn't call for help earlier too but she really just thought he had the flu, I think she may have had alzheimers, she couldn't live alone after he died. Sad... When we would try to ask her which funeral home to call she replied, "you had better ask him, he makes all those kind of decisions." She just really didn't understand.

That has to be one of the most sadest things I have ever heard... poor dear.