What Freaks You Out?

[JennieBSN]

Okay, people. It's time for a nice, fun, light-hearted discussion to blow off some steam.

WHAT FREAKS YOU OUT? What bodily fluid can't you STAND? What wound gives you the absolute WILLIES? It doesn't matter if you're an ADN, BSN, LPN, CNA, PQRST, ABCDEFG...every body gets the heebie jeebies over SOMETHING...even you stomach-of-steel ER nurses!

Mine is eyeball injuries/surgery...aaaaaaaaackkkkkkk!! Gross! Makes my skin absolutely CRAWL. Or when someone gets a little cut on their finger/toe/whatever and then squeezes it to make it bleed!! Bleah!! Then there's the ever-popular RESPIRATORY SECRETIONS. I can handle poop, pee, amniotic fluid, lanced boils, pus, whatever...but give me a nasty snot-filled trach, and I'm OUTTA THERE.

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[Mira]

I just love the slurping sound of mucus from the trachy suctioning(boarder peds in NICU), but what make my stomach turn is the melena+intestinal worms(looking back when I was working in Endoscopy), really horrible.

[Mira]

I just love the slurping sound of mucus from the trachy suctioning(boarder peds in NICU), but what make my stomach turn is the melena+intestinal worms(looking back when I was working in Endoscopy), really horrible.

[Coldfoot]

Originally posted by fyrnymph

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

OHH THANK GOODNESS! I was begining to think I was a freek!

Nails get me more than anything I've seen in 7 years of emergency medicine. Any nail injury to me is like someone running their fingers down a chalk board:eek:

The worst I had was a guy that was wearing sandals. He had his foot against his suitcase and when he lifted the case ripped the nail (My feet are CURLING) off his graet toe!!!!!! I couldn't walk into the room flat footed.

Man, my wife can't even file her nails in the car with me.

[Coldfoot]

Originally posted by fyrnymph

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

OHH THANK GOODNESS! I was begining to think I was a freek!

Nails get me more than anything I've seen in 7 years of emergency medicine. Any nail injury to me is like someone running their fingers down a chalk board:eek:

The worst I had was a guy that was wearing sandals. He had his foot against his suitcase and when he lifted the case ripped the nail (My feet are CURLING) off his graet toe!!!!!! I couldn't walk into the room flat footed.

Man, my wife can't even file her nails in the car with me.

[MrsK1223]

I once passed out in highschool when a drama teacher was describing her mother's hip replacement surgery...then in nursing school was being taught about a similar thing and did it again...anything with broken bones makes me shiver. I worked as a derm nurse where toenail extractions were common...I watched a couple and absolutely could not stand it...i felt it almost. Now I work in GI and I can't stand the sound of mucous and such when we do bronchoscopies. We also do colonoscopies and for the most part haven't had much of a reaction till today...a patient had a really foul stinky bm sometime before we started after she had supposedly been given enemas till clear....i have to wonder. That smell had my gag reflex jerking away. Big deep wounds are something I haven't got used to either.

[MrsK1223]

I once passed out in highschool when a drama teacher was describing her mother's hip replacement surgery...then in nursing school was being taught about a similar thing and did it again...anything with broken bones makes me shiver. I worked as a derm nurse where toenail extractions were common...I watched a couple and absolutely could not stand it...i felt it almost. Now I work in GI and I can't stand the sound of mucous and such when we do bronchoscopies. We also do colonoscopies and for the most part haven't had much of a reaction till today...a patient had a really foul stinky bm sometime before we started after she had supposedly been given enemas till clear....i have to wonder. That smell had my gag reflex jerking away. Big deep wounds are something I haven't got used to either.

[gizzy76]

The grossest thing I have ever seen (and I put it on another post as well) was this little ol lady on the LTC unit where I work who takes out her glass eyes and washes it in her mouth! Meanwhile, there is green discharge around her eye!

EEEEEEWWWWWWWWW! :imbar

[gizzy76]

The grossest thing I have ever seen (and I put it on another post as well) was this little ol lady on the LTC unit where I work who takes out her glass eyes and washes it in her mouth! Meanwhile, there is green discharge around her eye!

EEEEEEWWWWWWWWW! :imbar

[PowercarveJen]

This is a great thread!

So far I have only found 2 things that gross me out

1. Acsending colostomy in whic the pt had c-dif

2. 1500cc emesis of blood, no saliva spit or other...just the dark red stuff. It was quite possibly the grossest thing I have ever smelled..Yuck!

I can handle sputum and most fecal matter but the c-dif colostomy was awful.

[PowercarveJen]

This is a great thread!

So far I have only found 2 things that gross me out

1. Acsending colostomy in whic the pt had c-dif

2. 1500cc emesis of blood, no saliva spit or other...just the dark red stuff. It was quite possibly the grossest thing I have ever smelled..Yuck!

I can handle sputum and most fecal matter but the c-dif colostomy was awful.

[Desert Rat]

Mouth care that hasn't been done, leaving you to suction out big chunks of dried out growths stuck to the tongue and palate that clog up the yankauer.

Also Costco sells a natural juice with strawberry puree and other stuff that is the exact color and consistency of a bloody-purulent J-P drain I had to empty. The juice is really good, but in 27 years of nursing, the only thing I couldn't stomach.

[Desert Rat]

Mouth care that hasn't been done, leaving you to suction out big chunks of dried out growths stuck to the tongue and palate that clog up the yankauer.

Also Costco sells a natural juice with strawberry puree and other stuff that is the exact color and consistency of a bloody-purulent J-P drain I had to empty. The juice is really good, but in 27 years of nursing, the only thing I couldn't stomach.