Oddest things found in a patient!

[Antikigirl]

So it was kinda a wacky fun day at the med surge area yesterday...and there was this article in our newspaper about a man who put in like 12 long nails by nail gun in his head...then later on (like weeks) came into an ER with complaints of constant head ache. Go figure that ER got a great x-ray! LOL!

So we were talking to the docs around the nurses desk and they were being kinda silly and brining up the oddest things they have seen in patients...and it was amazing and funny!!!!!

One doc said during his ER rotation a man was very drunk and his buddies bet he couldn't put a big old Japanese Glass float (the green glass orbs you can find at the beach) up his rectum. Now this wasn't the small ones..this was one that was three times that size...a little smaller than a bowling ball! Guess it took him 4 hours and he did it! Well...okay now how does one remove that once it is stuck in the pelvis??? UHGGGGGG.

SO it took a team of 5 docs to think about it...and it was decided after many different ideas...the float must be broken up and removed very carefully. It was done with little damage to the area! Good job docs!

Then that same doc asked us nurses "what is the most popular item found up a rectum"...we guessed some items and we were all wrong...He told us it was shot glasses!?!?!? He said that even this hospital has a protocol for the removal! OMGosh!!!! Guess they use plaster to fill the glass, insert a long probe into the plaster..wait for it to solidify..and lube, patience, and lots of pain meds it can be pulled out!

Another doc talked about a man who ate poker chips and was all filled up and blocked, and was wondering why he had such bad constipation! That was a good surgery there!

What interesting items have you heard of...and how did they remove them?????? LOL!

[BabyRN2Be]

Pampered Chef Oil Sprayer (that you can pour wahtever kind of oil into and then use to mist food/cookware). On the operative report, the surgeon made special note that the object said "Pampered Chef" on the side.

I just don't know why I found this one so funny. I'm wondering if they physician thought that the pt had that especially engraved on the side.

My SIL sold Pampered Chef at one time. Don't know if I'll tell her this one or not. I don't think she really wants to know where her products might end up.

[LydiaNN]

Maybe the surgeon just wrote that in the report to make it more clear what an oil sprayer was. God forbid the patient had shoved some oil can from an automotive repair shop up there, lol!

[nurse100]

I was removing an impaction from a LTC resident once and pulled out plastic flowers!

She had apparantly ate the artifical flower arrangement next to her bed!

[snovbunny25]

I worked in the E. R. as a tech , and one night one guy came in with obvious pains. Finally after a few minutes he let us know there was a curling iron caught in his rectum. Cant remember what happend to the cord, but they couldnt pull it out themselves. His wife was to embarresed to come with him, but she did make numerous phone calls to the E.R that night. We did have some fun with that one..........

[MamaTheNurse, BSN, RN]

About 10 years ago, a patient came into the ER of the hospital I worked at in rural northern Michigan with a jar of Wyler's chicken boullion cubes in his rectum - the surgeon on call was able to get it out in the ER - the guy's story was that he picked up some lady in a bar, they went home and were fooling around - he claimed that she asked him if he was into rough sex and then he passed out - he presented to the ER the next day complaining of rectal pain.........

[CHATSDALE]

not exactly the same but sort of along the same line

we had a young nurse who came to work from out of state when her husband got transferred to the area

she went in to admit a new patient who was being admitted to rehab because of slow healing leg wound...nurse went in to assess patient and wound...removed the dressing to the leg AND A BIG ROACH RAN OUT

i just know that she was on the phone to san franciso that night to tell them that in louisiana all pts have roaches in dressings

[Angie O'Plasty]

not exactly the same but sort of along the same line

we had a young nurse who came to work from out of state when her husband got transferred to the area

she went in to admit a new patient who was being admitted to rehab because of slow healing leg wound...nurse went in to assess patient and wound...removed the dressing to the leg AND A BIG ROACH RAN OUT

i just know that she was on the phone to san franciso that night to tell them that in louisiana all pts have roaches in dressings

Yuck!!!! That must have really been bugging the pt...

[ortess1971]

Old Spice bottle(still full, never opened, one of the old fashioned kind) up a man's rectum. The surgeon tried to fish it out, had me try because I have small hands. We ended up using the vaccum delivery thingy they use in OB. Worked like a charm-the doc had us send the bottle to pathology. Just tonight we had a convict who swallowed razor blades -what a mess, it was a 6 hour surgery. This is his 3rd time doing this. Once, we also had a young guy who put one of those long dinner forks up his butt-before we took it out he asked the orderly that transported him if the hospital had any job openings in dietary!

[Antikigirl, ASN, RN]

I am sorry but I can't resist! LOL!!!!!!

If I was that orderly, I would sooooooo be thinking "no, but I hear YOU have a new opening in your 'dietary' department!"

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[madwife2002, BSN, RN]

As a child I had a constant runny nose, I was treated with ab's after ab's eventually they found the cause I had a laundry reciept ticket which had been carefully folded lodged up there lol.

[kiddienurse02]

have one about my own child. she had her hair braided and took one of the beads out of her hair and stuck it in her nose. all day she kept sniffing and rubbing her nose. the babysitter asked her what was wrong and she nonchalantly stated "there is just a bead in my nose." when asked why she did it she stated "I don't know." if you couldn't guess, she's 3.

[RunnerRN, BSN, RN]

I have a few. One is a pedi story. 4 year old boy with a lego tire up his nose; he was at day care during nap time, and said "everytime I put it up there it fell out, so I kept pushing until it stayed!" Skinny foley catheters work great for things up the nose....put it up and blow the balloon a little bit, then pull it out!

We had a guy come in with an apple up his tushie. He couldn't really come up with a good story. Took the doc a while to get that one out! He chipped away at it with some forceps until it was just a core and he could pull it out.

Had a 17 year old boy come in with his sister's vibrator lodged up there; yes, it was still buzzing away!

Department story told every Easter.....young man came in with multiple plastic Easter eggs lodged in his tush. We always start laughing so hard that I've never heard the resolution of that one!!