Oddest things found in a patient!

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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!

Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.

I looked after somebody who had swallowed 50 condoms full of cocaine in Jamiaca and then flew to the UK. Unfortunalty she was arrested at the airport and bought to the hospital-where we were to wait for developments, they didnt expect her to live, and she was only paid $2000 for the job. You cant use laxatives because it would cause the condoms to burst and she would die instantly. They eventually had to put her in another hospital because it wasnt safe for her in our hospital.

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Specializes in pediatric ER.

Had a guy that put an apple up his rectum... It makes me laugh any time I see those teenage girls with the "apple bottom" pants!

Also had a little girl (four year old) that swallowed a fairly large barrette (sp?). We did an xray and it showed that it was in her stomach. We showed dad the xray and he said, "Oh, it's one of THOSE barrettes!" It was pretty funny.

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Specializes in Flight, ER, Transport, ICU/Critical Care.

Lemon in the bum. Yes, lemonectomy was needed.

Fun size Snickers being "eaten" out of the twill, started to melt and the fella with the patient (must have had a sweet tooth???) LOTS of alarm! about the possibility of "migrating" peanuts. The doc advised the fella "That Milky Way's" might be a better candy choice.

Hand cuff key from an incarcerated fella, needed surgery, ICU admit.

All sorts of vibrators, sex toys, bottles, vermin, vegetables, other plant life and such.

A tampon stuck up the little brothers bum - by the big brother - don't even try to figure that out.

As long as there are holes, some folks will feel the need to fill 'em!

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I got a chicken bone schrapnel stuck in my throat. They had to put me under and remove it in the OR. Good thing I am vegetarian now. And chew my food better.

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Specializes in NICU/Neonatal transport.

in our children's ER, we had a 9yo with a giant sunflower seed bezoar.

He had apparently been eating a ton of sunflower seeds without bothering to shell them. Poor kid had several enemas, including one in fluoro, and then finally surgery. Before another of his enemas, I heard him remark to his mom that he was never eating another sunflower seed again! *LOL*

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Specializes in Orthosurgery, Rehab, Homecare.

Not hilarious, but my sister stuck a purple crayon up her nose and broke it off.

An instructor (RN) had a Da who put rhinestones off a bracelet up her nose to keep them away from her sister (they were fighting over them) and had to take her to the ER she worked at.

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while i was doing my surgery rotation in nursing school we had a pt complaining of severe abd. pain. after some test they seen where he had

some type of blockage in his intestines.

they opened him up to remove it and pulled out a nice size yellow balloon

filled with some white powdery substance!!! :eek:

when questioned about it he said that it was baking powder

and someone dared him swallow it.

needless to say the doctor sent it to be tested and find out what the substance was and the authorities were notified. :redlight:

i still cant believe that he swallowed it!!

it was a little bit larger than a golf ball!!

it is a wonder that balloon did not burst and kill him!

i guess that was the weirdest thing i ever seen first hand but i have heard some tales too.

:monkeydance:

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Specializes in SDU, Tele, Hospice, Radiology, Education.

I don't post very often, but when I saw this board I had to post.

The first story I have is the man that decided an economy size shampoo bottle need to go in his butt. He had to have it surgically removed. We weren't allowed to talk about it-- needless to say, everyone knew that story by the end of the evening!

The other 2 that I have were not funny, but i thought that I would post them anyway.

We had one kid that apparently tried to commit suicide by shoving a knife in his rectum. Apparently, he was ashamed that he was gay and decided that was the best way to take care of the problem. He was my age and I felt so bad for him. I can't imagine being that ashamed about something and just deciding to do something like that.

The next one was a man that was riding his Harley, had an accident, and had to have a branch removed from his butt. That guy was so embarrassed, but of course, its not like he could have exactly avoided that! He had horrible road rash to go along with that indignity!

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We had a patient come into the ER with a vibrator all the way up his rectum, still vibrating. Another time a man had a crystal vase stuck up there.

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