[BJNurse]

These stories are great. Nothing is more entertaining than a room full of nurses talking about their most disgusting moments. Here are a few of my own, hope you enjoy...

First one was told to me by a friend who is a resp. therapist ( I'm very glad I didn't experience this first hand) He was caring for a long term trach patient. This patient was non- compliant with trach care and had come in for a smelly fungal infection at the trach site. The therapist set out trach care supplies and started to review proper trach care when the patient told him that took to long instead she took the inner cannula out of her trach and sucked it clean!! Yes I said sucked it clean. The RT couldn't tell the story without gagging.


The next two stories aren't that disgusting but humorous. I once cared for a parapalegic patient who used a texas cath. Well, I guess he had trouble keeping the cath in place so he decided to duct tape the cath to his penis. Needless to say he had one nasty tape burn. The next story was from my nursing school days. I had clinicals with a very hyper , Type A nursing student. She had bathed her 80yr old patient and when I went in to she if she needed any help I noticed that her patient had a prolapsed uterus and the student had washed and powdered the entire thing!

[Nurse Izzy]

Hey guys! Thanks for all the wonderful stories! I know now for sure that I can handle being a nurse (I'm a student right now) because only the earwax story made me queasy. Thanks for the reassurance!

[Sally_ICURN]

Originally posted by RoadRunner
And YES he was oriented and supposedly intelligent....

I'd like to know what the heck happens to these poeple when they end up in an ICU bed????

I had a completely oriented firefighter (yeah, a firefighter!) once in our ICU, he too was spitting all over the place and blowing snot out of his nose, not into a tissue, it was more like cover one nare and blow and wherever it went is where it went. There was no reasoning with him until I said, and get this, I'm going to call the doctor to come and talk with you about this if you don't stop it. He stopped. Jerk.

We use leeches at our hospital. It's pretty nasty (pt is usually sedated) but very effective!!

[dspring]

We were in OR one day working on a patient, because our radiology table would not hold the patient, he was 5 5 and 550lbs. we got him over onto the table, and he looks me right in the eye, and tells me I have to lift his scrotum, because he can't. OK this is bad enough right, of course not. I lift the sheet, and there is this scrotum, that would make an elephants look small. It had to weight at least 40 lbs, and was cover with warts. They really don't pay us enough for this kind of work.

[navynurse29]

That is one BIG scrotum! Makes me wonder, if he lost weight, would he lose it in his scrotum? Hmmm, let's think about that for a minute.... on second thought, let's not go there!

[caroladybelle]

So when, on late night TV, do we see the ad:

"Do you have a fat unsightly scrotum"

"Do nurses have trouble lifting it out of the way"

And then, the advertisement for scrotum shrinker.


"Next, on the Jerry Springer show, Men with large scrotums and prostitutes that love them"

[Furball]

Wow dspring,

I might just post your story on my refrigerator.....made me lose my appetite...ug!

[dspring]

after 10m years of ER nursing I can keep them coming. We had this one "lady" we all call the Voodoo Lady. She came in on Christmas Eve Covered in stool. Both her and her sister were wearing Santa costumes. No I am not making this up. The lady ended up being septic, When she was undressed she had rabbit fur glued all over her chest, and a real rabbits foot on her valuable list. The Infection Disease Specialist was called in, because they couldn't find the source of her infection. He did a pelvic, and found rice wrapped in tissues stuffed up her vagina. to make a long story short. they lady coded twice, and finally ended up dying in a LTC facility. Of course she coded both times when I was working, and her "chest" was so large, that everytime I did chest compressions I got slapped by her. I know this sounds too hard to believe, but this is totally true.

[ShandyLynnRN]

found rice wrapped in tissues stuffed up her vagina????

Was she with it enough to say WHY??? I can't even think of a remotely good reason for that!!! EWWW!!!

[dspring]

unfortunatly she wasn't cause you guessed it I would have said what the heck did you do that for. Pity the poor Doc that had to dig it out.