I Dislocated My Kidney I Can't Poop

ebear, BSN, RN · Mar 17, 2008

Well, we all know that a dislocated kidney causes havoc with ones pooping apparatus! :rotfl:

medsurgnurse, RN · Mar 18, 2008

She saw it on "House". I swear it was on a episode a woman connective tissue holding to kidney in place dislodged sooooo 'dislocated kidney'. The "House" patient symptoms were orthostatic BP.

rgroyer1RNBSN, BSN, RN · Mar 18, 2008

I worked this weekend it was moderatly busy had a pt in the waiting room so I went down to get her registered.
I asked her "What brings you in to the ER tonight?"
She says "I think I dislocated my kidney and now I can't poop.":confused:
I asked her how this could happen, trying to keep a straight face.
She said she was wrestling around w/ her son and now her kidney was dislocated. Then she procedes to tell me "I normally poop every day but after this happened I was not able to poop today!"
I seriously had to hold it together because I was about to bust a gut when she said that.
Craziest thing I've heard so far!

:lol2: :chuckle:roll:roll

OMG! Too funny! ROFlMAO!

1TachyRN, RN · Mar 18, 2008

:DThat's funny, cuz this one time I sprained my pancreas and couldn't sneeze...

Limik · Mar 18, 2008

dang guys, don'tchya know?
her kidney 'slipped' into her abdominal cavity, finding its way through the friable, colonic tissue and lodged itself in her rectal vault.
that was cinchy to figure out.
sheesh...
leslie:nurse:

OMG, I can't believe I didn't figure that out myself!! Thanks for that educated explanation leslie!!! :bowingpur Your response made me laugh as much as the original post!!!!

Ohmygosh · Mar 18, 2008

I laughed so hard I think I fractured my funny bone... :bugeyes: which caused the diet sunkist I was drinking to fly outta my nose...now I cant pee!!! Geez...next time give a girl some warning before posting such important medical information.:uhoh21:

DutchgirlRN, ASN, RN · Mar 18, 2008

we had a young woman in the er with a glass thermometer in her bladder. she swore high and low that she had accidently swallowed it while taking her temperature. umm ah ha...sure...we believe you.... :lol2:

rph3664 · Mar 18, 2008

Has anyone here ever heard of and/or read "Intern" by Doctor X? It was a huge best-seller in the mid-1960s and is long out of print but relatively easy to find, and is a diary kept by a new doctor during his internship year.

He was later identified as Dr. Alan Nourse, who for many years before his 1992 death wrote a health column for "Good Housekeeping" magazine, and the events took place in 1956 and 1957.

Anyway, when he did his ER rotation, he had a patient who showed up in the middle of the night and said that one of her kidneys had come loose and fallen over her gallbladder. Do you :bugeyes: or :bluecry1: when you hear a story like that? He wasn't sure.

Also, plenty of things like a person who dropped a keg of beer on their toe 3 days ago, someone who had a tiny splinter in their hand (all late at night, of course) and a woman who said her very drunk boyfriend had fallen and hit his head. After he passed out, she said he had beaten her up, and she had whacked him with the handle of a rifle. He was sewn up and shipped off the jail.

Some things never change.

rph3664 · Mar 18, 2008

Kind of makes you wonder what her idea of, uh, "intimate relations", is like... I guess she never got The Talk.:chuckle

Wonder if she knows how she got her son?

DutchgirlRN, ASN, RN · Mar 18, 2008

we had a sad couple come in. he was an abuser. that night was like every other, he came home drunk and started hitting his wife. she decided enough was enough and she beat him in the head with her son's baseball bat. he ended up in the unit and eventually died. she was in for about a week on the medical floor. she was never charged with anything.

leslie :-D · Mar 18, 2008

Wonder if she knows how she got her son?

i'm sure her pooper was working fine back then.

leslie:nurse:

DutchgirlRN, ASN, RN · Mar 18, 2008