The strangest thing you've ever seen on an x-ray?

Nurses Humor

Published

Just read the story about the gal that swallowed her engagement ring that her boyfriend slipped into her milkshake. She didn't believe him until she saw the x-ray! Fortunately, the crisis passed ;) What's the funniest/strangest thing you've ever seen on an x-ray?

Specializes in Jack-of-All-Trades.

LOL! You don't have to make this stuff up!

Specializes in Jack-of-All-Trades.

Okay---this definitely makes the Top 10 List! Gives new meaning to pain in the a$$.

Had an 82 year old with recent breast implants (her husband had died and would never allow her to have them so she treated herself a week after his funeral). He c/o was respiratory so we did a cxr, which showed bilateral nipple piercings. She said she figured she would just go "whole hog" after she got the implants.

Just read the story about the gal that swallowed her engagement ring that her boyfriend slipped into her milkshake. She didn't believe him until she saw the x-ray! Fortunately, the crisis passed ;) What's the funniest/strangest thing you've ever seen on an x-ray?

I saw that they were on the Ellen show. It was very funny.

Had an 82 year old with recent breast implants (her husband had died and would never allow her to have them so she treated herself a week after his funeral). He c/o was respiratory so we did a cxr, which showed bilateral nipple piercings. She said she figured she would just go "whole hog" after she got the implants.

YES!!! Good for her. LOL

Specializes in OB, ER, ICU, Supervision, SANE.

13 yo boy who inserted a metal rod into his member - didnt ask, but he ended up in surgery.

DD girl who swollowed staples one at a time - took us a while to figure that one out.

Had a cousin who worked on the West coast, he had a patient who "accidentally" sat on a jar of grey poupon. Yup surgery - but the funniest part was that his surgeons also lived in his subdivision. Can you imagine the summer block party? "Pardon me sure....can you pass the............."

One of those old styled rounded prosthetic eyes up the backside. We didn't know it was that until it was removed.

One girl found out her friend was cheating with her boyfriend, so she took her cell phone intending to "foul it up a bit" and inserted it into the lady parts, the aerial caught in the cervix and so got stuck. It rung half way through the gynae reg's attempt to remove it.

Girl, with legs in the air, pipes up "can you see who's ringing? I bet its that stupid bastard (her ex)!"

Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

Carpenter's nails, the 6 inch kind, into the skull. Missed anything vital (?!). Work buddies got mad at him.

Two weeks later somebody in California did the same, made national news. Guess my little hospital is better at HIPAA:D

Specializes in IMCU.
13 yo boy who inserted a metal rod into his member - didnt ask, but he ended up in surgery.

DD girl who swollowed staples one at a time - took us a while to figure that one out.

Had a cousin who worked on the West coast, he had a patient who "accidentally" sat on a jar of grey poupon. Yup surgery - but the funniest part was that his surgeons also lived in his subdivision. Can you imagine the summer block party? "Pardon me sure....can you pass the............."

Where that surgeon was operating he/she won't recognize the patient at a block party!

Specializes in IMCU.
i think that would be a beer bottle inserted per rectum--all the way in. drunk guy passed out cold---"friends" did it to him as a "joke". had to be surgically removed. not very funny fellas.

man that must create a vacuum! shudders!

the worst i ever did was shave a guys eyebrow off.

Specializes in Neuroscience/Neuro-surgery/Med-Surgical/.

My mother is an old OR nurse, and she told us some pretty funny stories of 'retrieval procedures' in surgery. The one that stands out was the big, long sweet potato stuck up the guy's rectum, and required it to be surgically removed! Needless to say, we can't have sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving anymore.....

I took care of a patient that claimed to have ' swallowed his toothbrush'.....yeah right, that's why you had to have a hemi-colectomy! Can't imagine how he explained this to his wife and kids! geez!

Specializes in Management, Emergency, Psych, Med Surg.

I have seen lots of strange things on X-rays but once when I was working in the ED I walked by the X-ray box and found about 5 doctors standing around looking at this abdominal film of some guy with some complaint or another. They were just looking and looking, pointing to the X-ray "what is that?". I walked up there. "It's his kidney!" and walked away. And you went to medical school.

+ Add a Comment