So it was kinda a wacky fun day at the med surge area yesterday...and there was this article in our newspaper about a man who put in like 12 long nails by nail gun in his head...then later on (like weeks) came into an ER with complaints of constant head ache. Go figure that ER got a great x-ray! LOL!
So we were talking to the docs around the nurses desk and they were being kinda silly and brining up the oddest things they have seen in patients...and it was amazing and funny!!!!!
One doc said during his ER rotation a man was very drunk and his buddies bet he couldn't put a big old Japanese Glass float (the green glass orbs you can find at the beach) up his rectum. Now this wasn't the small ones..this was one that was three times that size...a little smaller than a bowling ball! Guess it took him 4 hours and he did it! Well...okay now how does one remove that once it is stuck in the pelvis??? UHGGGGGG.
SO it took a team of 5 docs to think about it...and it was decided after many different ideas...the float must be broken up and removed very carefully. It was done with little damage to the area! Good job docs!
Then that same doc asked us nurses "what is the most popular item found up a rectum"...we guessed some items and we were all wrong...He told us it was shot glasses!?!?!? He said that even this hospital has a protocol for the removal! OMGosh!!!! Guess they use plaster to fill the glass, insert a long probe into the plaster..wait for it to solidify..and lube, patience, and lots of pain meds it can be pulled out!
Another doc talked about a man who ate poker chips and was all filled up and blocked, and was wondering why he had such bad constipation! That was a good surgery there!
What interesting items have you heard of...and how did they remove them?????? LOL!
Old Spice bottle(still full, never opened, one of the old fashioned kind) up a man's rectum. The surgeon tried to fish it out, had me try because I have small hands. We ended up using the vaccum delivery thingy they use in OB. Worked like a charm-the doc had us send the bottle to pathology. Just tonight we had a convict who swallowed razor blades -what a mess, it was a 6 hour surgery. This is his 3rd time doing this. Once, we also had a young guy who put one of those long dinner forks up his butt-before we took it out he asked the orderly that transported him if the hospital had any job openings in dietary!
I am sorry but I can't resist! LOL!!!!!!
If I was that orderly, I would sooooooo be thinking "no, but I hear YOU have a new opening in your 'dietary' department!"
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't think he's going to get the job, but I'd sure like to be a fly on the wall for that interveiw.
Wow.... people can sure get creative!! I think some people need to find a hobby to combat their boredom..lol
I was doing clinicals in nursing school, and this guy had stuck a light bulb up his rectum and it shattered. He had surgery and was trying to eat regular food. He was acting like nothing had happened to him. He went down to the cafeteria and came back with a carton of food. The nurse was beside herself. She kept saying, "You just had rectal surgery, you are on a liquid diet.. you can't eat regular food!" He told her it was liquid food in the carton. She just rolled her eyes and walked away. It was quite funny.
My ped nursing instructor told me about a little girl who had horrible breath. They did an X-ray and found a spot in the lung. The family was devastated fearing the worst. It turned out she had inhaled a Christmas tree pine needle, and the lung tissue formed a protective cocoon around it. When they got it out it was still green and smelled like pine. Apparently, it had been there for years.
This is really gross. I took an EMT course and the paramedic teaching it told us about a case where they went to an apartment building and found a Great Dane "stuck" inside a woman. They had to take them both to the hospital for removal. They covered them in a sheet, because at this point all the building residents had gathered in the courtyard. As they carried her out the sheet blew off, exposing them to everyone standing around! So freaky..... how did she ever go back there again?? :uhoh21:
This thread is hilarious!!! Working in an ED as a registration clerk during nursing school, I saw my fair share of 'weird' stuff...the one that takes the cake however was the story I heard about a man getting a can of scrubbing bubbles stuck up 'where the sun don't shine'!
Wow.... people can sure get creative!! I think some people need to find a hobby to combat their boredom..lol
I was doing clinicals in nursing school, and this guy had stuck a light bulb up his rectum and it shattered. He had surgery and was trying to eat regular food. He was acting like nothing had happened to him. He went down to the cafeteria and came back with a carton of food. The nurse was beside herself. She kept saying, "You just had rectal surgery, you are on a liquid diet.. you can't eat regular food!" He told her it was liquid food in the carton. She just rolled her eyes and walked away. It was quite funny.
My ped nursing instructor told me about a little girl who had horrible breath. They did an X-ray and found a spot in the lung. The family was devastated fearing the worst. It turned out she had inhaled a Christmas tree pine needle, and the lung tissue formed a protective cocoon around it. When they got it out it was still green and smelled like pine. Apparently, it had been there for years.
This is really gross. I took an EMT course and the paramedic teaching it told us about a case where they went to an apartment building and found a Great Dane "stuck" inside a woman. They had to take them both to the hospital for removal. They covered them in a sheet, because at this point all the building residents had gathered in the courtyard. As they carried her out the sheet blew off, exposing them to everyone standing around! So freaky..... how did she ever go back there again?? :uhoh21:
Maybe, I'm missing something, but what part was "stuck" and how did it get "stuck"? I can guess what it was, but I'm not sure how it got "stuck".
Maybe, I'm missing something, but what part was "stuck" and how did it get "stuck"? I can guess what it was, but I'm not sure how it got "stuck".
Yeah....it's THAT part.
Without getting too graphic, she explained that the parts swell up and can't be unstuck on their own. The more they try to pull apart the worse it gets. Scary.....
Without getting too graphic, she explained that the parts swell up and can't be unstuck on their own. The more they try to pull apart the worse it gets. Scary.....
We had a man show up in the ER here with an Idaho potato (rather large one) and then followed by a Kroger jelly jar! Of course he did have a little taste and chose the grape flavor! hehe The x-rays were phenomenal and the pt had to have them surgically removed.
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I looked after somebody who had swallowed 50 condoms full of cocaine in Jamiaca and then flew to the UK. Unfortunalty she was arrested at the airport and bought to the hospital-where we were to wait for developments, they didnt expect her to live, and she was only paid $2000 for the job. You cant use laxatives because it would cause the condoms to burst and she would die instantly. They eventually had to put her in another hospital because it wasnt safe for her in our hospital.
New Orleans., back in the '80s we would get Customs Agents hauling in the cocaine body packers to our ER for a quick abd xray and if positive, admission till all were passed. Some would have up to 30 "eggs" of cocaine in their gut. insane.
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not exactly the same but sort of along the same line
we had a young nurse who came to work from out of state when her husband got transferred to the area
she went in to admit a new patient who was being admitted to rehab because of slow healing leg wound...nurse went in to assess patient and wound...removed the dressing to the leg AND A BIG ROACH RAN OUT
Those Louuzzzannnaaaaa pts have ROACHES in their EARS too. and when they do they get a AATACKALAWDIA, if you can get them to hold still long enough, instill 5 drops of "sweet oil" in the ear canal to drown the offending roach and then pull it out with stats or flush with tepid water.
mag lite flashlight. it was up his ummm you know. the sad thing is the docs couldn't get it out in the er had to remove it surgically with damage to intestines.
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I don't think he's going to get the job, but I'd sure like to be a fly on the wall for that interveiw.