Gross Things You Wish You Didn't See (G-rated)

[FireStarterRN]

So, at Thanksgiving one of my relatives and I were talking about the unhealthy diets that are landing people in the hospital. She told me that a doctor friend of hers was examining a morbidly obese woman and found a moldy twinkie under her breast. He picked out the twinkie, held it up and told the woman that this type of eating was the cause of her problems.

I kid you not.

[LolaVenice]

When I was a medical transcriber, I once typed a report of a woman who had a very large tumor removed from her...well...the area in discussion, and when the pathologist cut the removed tumor open, there was a plastic bottle of "Jean Nate" body splash cologne in there.

I guess there is a real need for "prolapse plugs"??

[Speed Freak]

about the head, an ambulance responded to a mva and one of the dead had been decapitated...they looked around for the head and finally had to get down in a water filled ditch and feel around until they found it..

Our head was found 400 miles away by some poor guys working on a drilling rig. What happened was that the victim was driving a truck hauling a load of oil field casing. That is pipe anywhere from 12-16 inches in diameter. He fell asleep or was distracted and ran into another truck parked on the side of the interstate. Several of the pipes went through the cab and one of them took his head.

When we go there we searched around for it and could not find it. Another truck showed up and loaded up the pipes that were strewn across the highway and ditch.

Even after bringing the poor headless guy back, I went out to the scene and looked around for the head some more. A couple of my friends joined me just out of morbid curiosity.

The pipes meanwhile got shipped to a supply company in Houston and then shipped to a drilling rig in South Texas. It was there when the pipe with the head in it was unloaded that the head rolled out. I am sure that those poor roughnecks have not forgotten that incident to this day.

[FireStarterRN, BSN, RN]

Wow, that story takes the cake

[Justhere, BSN, RN]

Our head was found 400 miles away by some poor guys working on a drilling rig. What happened was that the victim was driving a truck hauling a load of oil field casing. That is pipe anywhere from 12-16 inches in diameter. He fell asleep or was distracted and ran into another truck parked on the side of the interstate. Several of the pipes went through the cab and one of them took his head.

When we go there we searched around for it and could not find it. Another truck showed up and loaded up the pipes that were strewn across the highway and ditch.

Even after bringing the poor headless guy back, I went out to the scene and looked around for the head some more. A couple of my friends joined me just out of morbid curiosity.

The pipes meanwhile got shipped to a supply company in Houston and then shipped to a drilling rig in South Texas. It was there when the pipe with the head in it was unloaded that the head rolled out. I am sure that those poor roughnecks have not forgotten that incident to this day.

Oh I WOULD have NIGHTMARES for years. Could you imagine. I would be afraid of what would roll out of a pipe everytime I would unload it. :uhoh21:

[rph3664]

Oh I WOULD have NIGHTMARES for years. Could you imagine. I would be afraid of what would roll out of a pipe everytime I would unload it. :uhoh21:

No kidding! EMTs would expect to see things like that - NOT oil workers!

There is just nothing even remotely amusing about that story. I wonder how many of them are still alive, if you get my drift.

[Speed Freak]

No kidding! EMTs would expect to see things like that - NOT oil workers!

There is just nothing even remotely amusing about that story. I wonder how many of them are still alive, if you get my drift.

I worked on drilling rigs, casing crews and pipelines for years. It was not a rare occassion to unload some pipes and have critters (possums, racoons, foxes, feral cats) come running out. But a head would be completely unexpected.

Work in the oil field lends itself to horrific injuries and gruesome deaths. I saw more than my share of mangled body parts and horribly killed co-workers. But usually when you wind up with a body part at your feet, it belongs to someone close by who happens to be missing that very body part. The rest of the body is not supposed to be 400 miles away.

[flightnurse2b, LPN]

The only story even close to this strange that I had anything to do with was losing a patient's head once when I was working on an ambulance as an ECA. Yes, we lost a head. From the neck up. A head, gone.

wow, you've got me beat. the worst 2 things i've lost as a paramedic were an eyeball and a hand.

[rph3664]

Work in the oil field lends itself to horrific injuries and gruesome deaths. I saw more than my share of mangled body parts and horribly killed co-workers. But usually when you wind up with a body part at your feet, it belongs to someone close by who happens to be missing that very body part. The rest of the body is not supposed to be 400 miles away.

And that's where I was coming from regarding the PTSD those unfortunate men (and maybe some women) no doubt experienced after the head fell out.

[pattymac]

You know what's REALLY sad here....? After all these years in nursing...these things don't even bother me anymore! That is truly sad.

[Keepstanding, ASN, RN]

excuse me while i go vomit ! these post's have turned my stomach !

praiser

[rph3664]

excuse me while i go vomit ! these post's have turned my stomach !

praiser

well, what were you expecting with a thread title like this?

[southernbeegirl, BSN, RN]

Girl, you come up with some STUFF!! I don't mean this in a bad way. Let me tell you, every time I see that you initiated a post, I can't wait to see what else you shared. That, literally takes the cake...:WHCk:

all i could think of when i read this reply was "damn that cake looks good!"

and i'm fat too so i cracked me up, lol:lol2: