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What is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?
What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?
Just a couple to get you started- you'll probably spend hours reading the whole way through.
I had an old guy who had legs that were so gangrenous they looked like oatmeal on top of bone. He had them wrapped in trash bags and when I cut the trashbags off, the whole ER stunk like a corpse. Poor guy. Said the VA wanted to cut the legs off.... Um yes. I had to take a mask and coat the inside with chapstick just to clean him. Flesh was literally falling off on the chux. Omg. I felt so bad for the guy.
First week on my own, 3pm to 11pm shift at a county jail.....1 Rn and 1 LVN for 500 inmates. Hear a call on the radio for immediate medical assistance to cell such an such. Walk in to a cell with three officers standing and watching an inmate sitting in a corner, blood squirting out of his L and R wrists and him sitting in a pool of blood, looking like a ghost! That was my first emergency response ever...5 years later and I'm still in corrections and love every minute of it.
Pt who came in because he had a mango stuck up his butt. This story will be forever talked about in our ER. People just love to put things up their butts! We had a guy the other day who was shot 6 times, twice in the face and came in walkie talkie. Maybe it was the adrenaline.
Sigh. Choose something with a base, people! We had an eggplant on our unit...
nyshoegal7
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What is the craziest story/pt/experience you had in the ED or any specialty really. When I am having a bad day these kind of stories make me smile! I'm sure you feel the same :-)