This is probably a stupid question, but have any of you ever had a patient claim to have a alien implant and you actually found something foreign, unidentifiable in them? Any other possible encounters?
TriciaJ, RN 4,295 Posts Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory. Has 42 years experience. May 21, 2017 No, but I do remember a psych patient once who came in with a fantastic story about how soon all the computers in the world will be connected to one another. My coworker and I thought it was definitely original. Yup, right before the internet became a thing. He heard about it before we did.
RayeAnn Kemp 11 Posts May 21, 2017 You think I am like the pych patient, I know it's a stupid question but I am doing research on this. Sorry. Maybe the patient was an alien. Lol
TriciaJ, RN 4,295 Posts Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory. Has 42 years experience. May 21, 2017 You think I am like the pych patient, I know it's a stupid question but I am doing research on this. Sorry. Maybe the patient was an alien. LolNo, you read me wrong. I meant it's too easy to discount something as being loony and then to find out there's actual truth to it. I also had a patient once who gave me such an outlandish medical history I almost burst out laughing at one point. Luckily I didn't. When I got her records it was all documented.
Flatline, BSN, RN 375 Posts May 23, 2017 Yes, I have encountered this many times in my career where mysterious foreign objects are found inside of someone. For some odd reason the objects are typically lodged in the rectum with no memory of how they got there.
~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN 5,259 Posts Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics. Has 6 years experience. May 23, 2017 Yes, I have encountered this many times in my career where mysterious foreign objects are found inside of someone. For some odd reason the objects are typically lodged in the rectum with no memory of how they got there.Same, and once they did surgery they did find the cap to the cologne bottle up in the rectum (was up to high to pull out) and then the patient remembered it wasn't aliens but that he had accidentally sat on it.
Atl-Murse 474 Posts Has 1 years experience. May 23, 2017 I really think aliens attack humans with constipation. How else would you explain the ungodly amount of poop that hang out in these patients
WKShadowNP, DNP, APRN 1 Article; 2,077 Posts Specializes in Hospital medicine; NP precepting; staff education. Has 22 years experience. May 23, 2017 Oh deers. This thread is one of the more , ah, shall i say memorable ones.
