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| No. 60 | 
Mar 18, 2001, 10:47 AM
These posts are hilarious and disgusting. I have a really strong stomach and some of this stuff has just made me run for the toilet! As far as what grosses me out, the trach/respiratory mucous is disgusting and GI bleed smells make me kind of ill as well. When I first started working in the ED, I thought third degree burns were the worst yet until I smelled wounds infected with pseudomonas. YUCK!!! The latest gross-out for me was this man that was hit by a car. He was FILTHY! His feet smelled horrible and were about as funky as anything you've ever seen and to top it off, he was intubated and when they gave him the meds he crapped everywhere. It wasnt just the run-of-the-mill poop either, I'm talking 3 days worth of drinking really cheap beer poop. Everyone was gagging and one of the nurses helping take care of him hadn't eaten all day and nearly passed out from the smell.
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Mar 18, 2001, 11:39 AM
GI bleed poop has to be the most gag inducing smell for me.
Trauma, ICU, ER, Paramedic....usually the stuff in the field that you have no warning about is what shocks me the most. Jaw dropping, stare for 30 seconds stuff. Decapitations and guns to the head and face give me the willies for a week or so...complete with nightmares for a night or two. It takes a lot of showers to get rid of the smell of something that has been dead for a few days, same smell as those sores that need debrieded only bigger odor.
That about covers it for me
| | No. 62 |
Mar 18, 2001, 03:53 PM
Elenaster, the poop from the patient that had been dringking for three days brought back bad memories. One time in the ER I had to get a "nasty" smelly person undressed. When I pulled his socks off, they didn't come off, but just disintergrated into dust. The smell was terrible.
| | No. 63 |
Mar 18, 2001, 05:55 PM
Oh, how hysterical this posting is!
I feel so, so much better knowing others have things that bother them! I loved the chicken feathers one--I'll be sure to bath daily, just to keep my feather count down! Also was grossed out by the dog & coffee can one--will be sure to have a lid for the can, when I am old w/ COPD!
Mine? I can't stand lugies/spit/respiratory slimewads of any type! Left ICU because of it! ('course I'm in L&D now and do blood & amniotic fluid to the elbows without difficulty...go figure!)
I sympathize w/ the RN who hated circumcisions! When I saw my first one, in nursing school, I grabbed my crotch & dropped to the floor in sympathy pain...then the doctors started laughing & teasing me 'cuz I don't have the right equipment to BE sympathetic! LOL!
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| | No. 64 |
Mar 18, 2001, 09:59 PM
The closest I came to losing it was when I was assisting a veterinarian pin a cat's dislocated leg. He was a BIG man, ex-football player, and he took this little kitty's leg, and twisted it around like it was a piece of sphaghetti. Disconnected it from the anesthetic machine, rushed it to x-ray, back into OR, nope, not in yet...twisted it some more, back to x-ray (etc). Having had many badly sprained ankles in my life, I guess I was imagining how much pain the poor cat was going to be in when it woke up...
Finally, he got it, and began to insert a pin, using a carpenter's brace and bit. The sound of that pin going through bone (crunch, crunch) REALLY did it! I had to leave, or I would have been flat out on the floor!
[This message has been edited by Jay-Jay (edited March 21, 2001).]
| | No. 65 |
Mar 18, 2001, 11:10 PM
I am failry season nurse and the one thing that just gets way under my skin and grosses me out is nails....
I once had to assit with the removal of an ingrown toenail the sound that the nail made when it seperated from the toe.... yuck
I have goosebumps just thinking about it
| | No. 66 |
Mar 19, 2001, 12:52 AM
Yes, PINKYEl, when I was a nurse extern in surgery that cauterizing "smell" was horrible. I did not eat red meat for about a year after working there. And to Opie, I know you have better gross ER stories and even better Elvis nurse stories, either write a book or post your experiences here. They are great.
| | No. 67 |
Mar 19, 2001, 03:47 AM
Originally posted by bigjay:
Ahh, something lighter... let's see what freaks me out.
One nasty thing I hate is c-diff. We have a few on our floor and it's just nasty! The smell almost made me throw up a few nights ago.
Me personally I can't stand getting needles. Giving them, I'm good but getting them, no way. I had to get my titres tested a while back so I just popped over to the lab to get blood drawn. They didn't want me to go back to the floor cause they thought I was going to pass out!
Cheers,
J-P | | No. 68 |
Mar 19, 2001, 03:50 AM
Originally posted by bigjay:
Ahh, something lighter... let's see what freaks me out.
One nasty thing I hate is c-diff. We have a few on our floor and it's just nasty! The smell almost made me throw up a few nights ago.
Me personally I can't stand getting needles. Giving them, I'm good but getting them, no way. I had to get my titres tested a while back so I just popped over to the lab to get blood drawn. They didn't want me to go back to the floor cause they thought I was going to pass out!
Cheers,
J-P
I can pretty much handle anything snot, blood, most smells but I just cannot handle mouths. Dentures make me gag I dont know how I got through all those years at the nursing home. I think it must stem from the pika patient i had.
| | No. 69 |
Mar 19, 2001, 06:24 PM
I am Ok with trachs, vomit, colostomies, gaping wounds,ect what bothers me is feet!!!dry,scaly long thick toenails. can't understand why anyone would want to be a podiatrist??Please don't ask me to take off your socks, LOL
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