Most disgusting thing you have witnessed or taken part of on the job?

[Solid Snake]

I saw this post on another general discussion website, and by far this is the most disgusting thing i have read.

TheAmbassador posted:

My aunt is a nurse, and she told me a hell of a story about this. Wasn't too outrageous, but its just a testament to a man's dedication to sex.

She was assisting a doctor with a severely morbidly obese woman. Apparently she had managed to contract a huge amount of STD's, which she had ignored for months, because apparently the hideous stench of it wasn't able to overpower the stench from the months of sweat and dirt accumulated in her folds. Side note about that, think about the last time you worked outdoors with your hands. If you rubbed your hands together, little balls of dirt mixed with sweat would form. Imagine those now to be nearly basketball sized and flattened, mixed with discharge from yeast infections stored for months in the folds of fat. That is this woman.

Anyway, my aunts job was to hold the folds up while the doctor went in to clean up. She's a nurse, she's cleaned **** and puke off old people that was there so long it began to corrode their skin, and she had to leave to vomit.

After everything is done, the woman's husband shows up, skinny, ratty looking guy, and she asks for him to be let in. At one point, talking to the man, the doctor asked, out of sheer curiosity, how the two of them have sex. The man was happy to answer.

He places her into the corner of the room, face first. Then, using a lot of tape, straps each of her butt cheeks to the wall, and ***** her until they tear free.

TMI

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3097085&pagenumber=10#post358028000

[detroitdano]

Fat people always make stories that would be fairly gross into something horribly gross.

My worst story was the 350 lb. patient who had not had a bowel movement for 2 months (no clue how) and the medical team decided to give him all sorts of stuff to get his guts moving. When he finally went, it took 4 of us to clean him up and there was probably 10 lb. of poop on the bed.

[teysmith]

These stories are just sickening!!!! Yuck! especially the original post... Even though they are quite disgusting, I cant wait to hear more!!!! This should get very interesting....

[talltale]

I work in the surgical ward and this happens quite often. During change of dressings, i assist this particular doc. While he is doing his thing with his bloody gloves and all, his mobile phone rings, gets it from his pocket and answers the call then after the call he will put it back to his pocket and continue with his task. I wonder if i can swab his mobile for culture.

[Scrubby]

We had this lady a few weeks ago who had one of those mucous secreting uterine tumours. She was palliative but needed to have the mucous removed because she looked as though she was 8 months pregnant and it was causing her severe discomfort.

So she had a laparotomy and we removed the stuff by the bucket load. It was one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen.

[talltale]

Maybe he has amnesia and forgot asepsis? Or you're right, he's just plain stupid. I think it's also malpractice.

[teysmith]

ha ha! perhaps!

[jjensen]

When I worked in cardiovascular surgery we were prepping a patient for open heart and I lifted up the folds of her belly and found a moldy sandwich... I was actually gagging... Yuck...

[nurseforlife]

I remember having to manually disimpact an elderly lady who hadn't had a bowel movement for 2 weeks. It really did seem more like I was helping her deliver a baby. It was the biggest poop I'd ever seen. In addition her roomate could hear what was going on, and kept yelling out "puuuuuuush".

[Magsulfate, BSN, RN]

A few years ago we had a patient that developed MRSA in his CABG incision. The nurse who was taking care of him about 2 weeks post surgery (before they knew about the infection) told me that she was helping him to stand up and all of a sudden his sternal incision popped open a little and bloody puss shot out across the room.

Then he was moved to our ICU. Anyway, we had to do Q4 hr sterile wet to dry dressing changes. The incision was completely open. You could see the wires used to wire his sternum back together after his heart surgery... you could also see down in between his ribs. Every time his heart beat you could see his lungs or heart, OR SOMETHING jumping around underneath his ribs. It freaked me out. Needless to say the patient was very depressed. I'm not sure if he ever made it out of there alive.

[Aneroo, LPN]

When he finally went, it took 4 of us to clean him up and there was probably 10 lb. of poop on the bed.

Call me crazy, but all I can think of with this is the comedy skit with the guy from Blue Collar Comedy (can't remember his name, Tater Salad) where he says "You ever have a poop so good your pants fit better afterwards?"

[herecomestrouble]

I once had a pt with necrotising fasciiti,she was also on a vent and required frequent oral suctioning.The wound in her abdomen was huge,with an opening from one hip to the other and lots of drainage.One day the ID doc comes in,checks the wound and then suctions it out with the yankeur we used on her mouth then hangs it back up!!If I hadn't seen him I might have come in later and suctioned her mouth with that thing.When I saw what he did I told him about it and replaced it.He didn't seem to think it was a big deal.