I am writing a "paper" on the dumbest reasons/stories that people show up/come to ER. Would appreciate ANY input ANY of the ER staff out there has for me.........................IF you'd like a copy of the FINAL draft, please let me know and I'll forward it.
Thanks much!
PS. My winning entry so far is a Mom who brought 1 month old infant in at 2:30 AM because "it wouldn't look her in the eye. It doesn't recognize me!"
Nothing I hear or see surprises me anymore. People are strange and do strange things and pretty much anything you can think of can go up various orifaces. Including a chicken...... I will leave that one for your imagination.....
A live chicken? Cause that would almost be worth watching just to see how!
Thanks for the laughs. Some of the things you see are very interesting, others joyful, others downright heartbreaking.
Something that works for me when trying not to judge/laugh/whatever, is to remember I have NO idea what their background is. I have no way of knowing what events in their life brought them to where they are now. I remember the first time I had to go grocery shopping after my son died, how weird it was that everything looked the same, and yet I felt so incredibly different. Since then, I tend to look at people differently. Nobody could tell by looking at me that my son had recently died, so now I try to look at people with more compassion. For all I know, they may have lost a loved one recently, lost a job, found out they have cancer, etc. I hope that will help me in those situations like this, where I'd be tempted to laugh. :)
I remember hearing about a woman who went into the ER because she had 3 light bulbs stuck - 2 in front and one in back. All I can say is I really hope they didn't break!
Funny as these posts are, had an individual years ago with, I think it was a hair spray container in that particular oriface. Drs could not get it our from below and he ended up with a colostomy for awhile. Don't know whether he ever tried such a thing again or not.
Okay, my best FOB story: we had a young guy come in with a hot dog stuck up each nostril. Apparently, while drinking with his buddies, he had been dared to shove frozen wieners up his nose. However, he shoved a little too firmly, and once they started to thaw, there was no getting them out (they kept breaking off). The ENT on call remarked it was his first meat extraction. Apparently, drinking brings out the urge to "experiment" in some folks.
Nothing I hear or see surprises me anymore. People are strange and do strange things and pretty much anything you can think of can go up various orifaces. Including a chicken...... I will leave that one for your imagination.....
Wow! a chicken.. now I'd like to see that one! It should be quite interesting...
So, was talking to the nursing super today about apple guy. She said that she once had a cucumber guy. He drove from a small community past two other ERs to present himself, cucumber in wrong orifice, to her ER. His story was that he was camping and had nothing with which to wipe himself, so he used a cumcumber, and he slipped and the cucumber ended up you know where. :lol2:
my 2 favorite c/o # 1 " my privy parts is twinging" my response was "are you bragging or complaning? # 2 "when i drink beer i have to pee a lot ...duh..
:)
GeminiTwinRN, BSN
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I spit my coffee on the screen thanks to you!
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