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So today I was emptying my patient's recently revised colostomy drainage...And I removed about a pound of what looked like pot roast, along with peas and cucumber seeds. I didn't freak out in front of him, but on the inside I was gagged and trying not to freak out. I've seen lots of other really "gross" things and not even flinched, but for some reason that almost did me in.
So now I need to know... what's the grossest thing you've ever seen?
I was fortunate not to witness this. It happened quite a few years ago on a med/surg floor. A patient with a new colostomy who had psych issues decided to pull the thing apart. The night shift staff heard him yelling in his room and went to see what was going on. He had pulled his colostomy bag off, tore his stoma apart and was pulling his colon out of the hole & shredding it to bits. There was a lot of blood, poop and tissue thrown on the wall. I'm so glad I wasn't there. The staff that was still makes faces over that night & it was over 5 years ago.
at work i don't get grossed out to much.. but boogers make me sick... my maine coon cat had a stuffy nose today and she just flipped a big booger on my computer , and i almost hurled....i just cleaned my computer with a lysol wipe.
(totally off-topic...) Maine Coons ROCK ... I have four, they are my BAYBEES ... and one is very sneezy! He has awakened me more than once with a goopy sneeze in my face.
Kitty head-butts from my coonies to yours :heartbeat
(totally off-topic...) Maine Coons ROCK ... I have four, they are my BAYBEES ... and one is very sneezy! He has awakened me more than once with a goopy sneeze in my face.Kitty head-butts from my coonies to yours :heartbeat
I have one too!!He is the coolest cat ever. He is so smart and has such a unique personality. Maine Coons do rock!!
I'm the "good nurse" that does not like to ask a nurse assistant to do something "yucky". It makes me feel like I am lazy or just pushing off less desirable tasks onto the nurse assistant. (Yea, maybe I have problems with assertiveness...) ANYWAYS, one time something I found in a patient's room so grossed me out that I (even I) had no problem going straight to the nurse assistant and asking her to take care of it...Although I told her I was so sorry.Okay, maybe it's not so bad but to me it was.... I had a VERY obese patient (probably around 500 pounds) and he pooped in a bedside commode. And it looked like cow manure! It was the biggest pile of human poop I have ever seen in my life!! And it was a huge, soft, blob of poop! Not diarrhea, but this mushy blob!!!! I just about lost it, and if I had to have cleaned the commode I think I would have vomited!!
:chuckleewwwww...
So, I read this thread from start to finish while eating pizza and wings with ranch dip.
Do you think I have the stomach for nursing? :)
I think I'll be fine. Did get just the slightest bit queasy if I pictured the description and the details. But still made it through my dinner.
Can't wait.
The mushrooms sound cool.
Can't beat Marla's story, but I had just started my new job as a fresh CNA. I was helping the nurse admit a pt. She wanted to take off her underwear. Ok, no problem. She had hundred dollar bills ($10,000 all together - we had to count it) rolled up between pads and then she pulled some more bills out of her lady parts! They went into a biohazard bag before being locked up. Her excuse was that no one would dare steal her money - and she was right. And to top it off she had one heck of a nasty yeast infection so you can imagine what the money looked like.
Now I sanitize my hands whenever I touch money.
Alternator81
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I had this 600 lb pt with arterial insufficiency, and his feet had like a 1/2 inch of dead skin-- it looked like they were covered in sand. Every time I was in his room, especially when I had to remove/apply the heal protectors, I am imagining myself breathing in all this dead skin that was sloughing off. I thought it was getting in my mouth. It was freaking me out, because when you took the sheet off, the specialty bed was covered with dead skin dust. It's really grossing me out thinking about it now.